Fleckstein White 2021

Fleckstein White 2021

Domaine Einhart

Do you like Riesling? Do you love Alsace Riesling? You'll succumb to the temptation of Fleckstein, a pure, charming, mineral, and crystalline wine, 100% Riesling, with an alcohol content of 13.5%. All the grapes come from the Einhart estate and are grown on the great limestone terroir of the Rosheim hillsides, in the Fleckstein area, on a ferruginous vein located 1.5 meters deep and a layer of loess that retains a lot of freshness and limestone purity in this wine, whose horizontal acidity is typical of Middle Triassic muschelkalk. The plots, inclined at 10%, are south-east facing and the average age of the vines is forty years. The harvest is worked by direct pressing and fermented with indigenous yeasts. The aging is one year on total lees in Alsatian foudre (barrels of approximately one thousand liters). We recommend decanting this Fleckstein so that it expresses all its vitality.

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Located in the northern part of the Alsatian vineyard, horizontally above Strasbourg, the Einhart estate is a ten-hectare family property whose vines are located on the hillsides that rise between the Alsace plain and the Vosges mountains. The soil is clay-limestone and rich in fossils (muschelkalk, i.e. shell limestone and oolitic limestone, and lettenkohle or dolomitic limestone). Since 1990, Nicolas Einhart has been at the helm, now assisted by his son Théo. True to his commitments to the TIFLO association, of which he is a co-founder, Nicolas devotes his winemaking to protecting the land and biodiversity, making wine without additives, refusing harmful phytosanitary products, and maintaining ecological refuge areas. His estate has been certified organic since 2011. Like Jean-Marc Dreyer [link], he is firmly focused on skin maceration and produces white maceration wines (orange wines) in addition to a Pinot Noir red. Entirely manual harvests, destemming of the grapes, light punching down of the cap, and delicate pressing are characteristic of the estate, as well as the separate vinification of each terroir, aging on lees, and the absence of filtration before bottling. The wines are made from pure grapes, lively, powerful, invigorating, and reflect the minerality of the beautiful terroirs of the Vosges foothills.