CASE PRICE = $28.99 per bottle (add 12+ quantity to your basket)
About this Wine:The Domaine Weinbach Pinot Gris are full bodied, with complex bouquets and a beautiful roundness. They are delicious with veal, escalope à la crème, risotto, lamb, chicken and all sorts of poultry. Very rich for the late vintages, Tokay Pinot Gris goes really well with foie gras.
Origins: the Cuvee Laurence is from the marly limestone soil at the foot of Altenbourg. Picked up in overmaturity, these cuvées have a great aromatical complexity, with a lot of deepness and also with a lot of power, they are wonderfully balanced. They are delicious with sweet and sour poultry, foie gras, and white meats with rich sauces made of foie gras.
At the foot of the majestic Schlossberg hill in Alsace stands one of the finest estates in all of France. Domaine Weinbach is run with consummate skill and total dedication by Colette Faller and her two daughters, Catherine and Laurence. In the words of Robert Parker, “Colette and her daughter Laurence...pushed Weinbach to the pinnacle of Alsace’s qualitative pyramid.” Domaine Weinbach was established by the Order of Capuchin monks in 1612. The “Clos des Capuchins” vineyard surrounds the domaine; the prestigious “Schlossberg” vineyard (the first terroir in Alsace to receive the status of Grand Cru), the Grand Cru “Furstentum”, and the adjacent “Altenbourg” vineyard rise above the clos. The domaine has 62 acres of vineyards in the heart of Kayserberg’s hills and valleys.
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate:
"While funky, fungal tones handicapped the Fallers' undeniably rich Pinot Gris Cuvee Saint Catherine of the vintage, their 2006 Pinot Gris Cuvee Laurence offers a nobler sauteed mushroom character nicely folded into a matrix of mush melon and almost over-ripe peach. Alkaline and smoky overtones point toward considerable oxidative development, and this will be another one of those 2006s where one could get a good argument going about its stamina, but I would advocate consumption within the next couple of years. The clean, attractively brown-spiced, and to a considerable degree refreshing (though sweet) finishing impression here is encouraging.
This year, Domaine Weinbach will receive its official certification as organic and biodynamic growers. The Fallers did well in the difficult 2006 vintage - especially with those Gewurztraminer harvested before botrytis gained the upper hand - and with good reason expressed elation over the vibrancy and refinement that characterizes most of 2007s." - David Schildknecht (Apr 2010)
Wine Spectator Magazine:"Sweet apple and apple blossom notes mix with cherry, licorice and apricot flavors in this attractive white. It shows good balance and ends with a clean floral note. Drink now through 2013. 75 cases imported." –AN (2008)
