About this winery

Olivier Humbrecht is one of the world's most renowned winegrowers. He is a Master of Wine and has been described by Robert Parker as the greatest white winemaker on earth. Yet he is very soft spoken, humble, and self-deprecating, which makes him perfectly suited to his assumed role as a global ambassador of wine. He is a champion of terroir, biodynamic farming principles, and non-interventionist winemaking, whose family have been winegrowers in Alsace for 12 generations (since 1620). He is...

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Product notes

Bottling date: 8/2016; Alcohol: 13.9° alc; Residual sweetness: 3.2 g/l; Total Acidity 2.5 g/l H2SO4 (3.7 g/l Tar), pH: 3.9; Yields: 40 hl/ha; Optimum drinking period: 2016-2026; Average age of the vines: 46 years; Terroir: gravely soil on valley floor; Indice 1. In a classic vintage, the oldest vines from the Herrenweg vineyards are vinified and kept separate as a single vineyard wine, all the other vineyards outside the Herrenweg and the ones under 40 years old within it are released under the Village Cru Turckheim. In 2015, the effect of the heat and drought was such that the berries on most vineyards couldn’t develop normally, which explains the small crop in a vintage that showed a good potential initially. After comparing the 3 different batches made, we decided to blend all of them together and release any Herrenweg. Thus, the 2015 Turckheim, just like the 2014 in fact, contains a higher percentage of older vines. Véraison was early and fast, leading to a homogenous ripeness, but the Gewurztraminer grape variety really need more time to ripen properly its concentrated tannins, so they were all harvested in the second half of September. Healthy grapes, no noble rot, so normal ripeness and fast fermentation leading to a very dry wine.