The wine region of Alsace Grand Cru 'Kirchberg de Ribeauville' is located in the region of Alsace Grand Cru of Alsace of France. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Louis Sipp or the Domaine Jean Sipp produce mainly wines white and sweet. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Alsace Grand Cru 'Kirchberg de Ribeauville' are Riesling, Gewurztraminer and Pinot gris, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Alsace Grand Cru 'Kirchberg de Ribeauville' often reveals types of flavors of minerality, floral or lemon zest and sometimes also flavors of oil, non oak or vegetal.
In the mouth of Alsace Grand Cru 'Kirchberg de Ribeauville' is a powerful with a nice freshness. We currently count 9 estates and châteaux in the of Alsace Grand Cru 'Kirchberg de Ribeauville', producing 12 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Alsace Grand Cru 'Kirchberg de Ribeauville' go well with generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or spicy food.
Acker announced in September that it had sold a six-litre bottle of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti’s (DRC) ‘Romanée-Conti’ 2002 at a Hong Kong auction for nearly HK$3.1m (US$398,400). However, it’s understood that the sale of the bottle was subsequently cancelled. Doubts about the wine’s authenticity have been raised by lawyer and wine fraud expert Don Cornwell on the Wine Beserkers website. He also expressed concerns about another wine, a six-litre bottle of DRC Romanée-Conti 2000, which was origi ...
Surging demand for luxury Champagnes in the past two years appears to have changed the region’s profile on the secondary market, said Liv-ex, a global marketplace for the trade. ‘Once a relatively modest price performer, Champagne has become the best performer over the past one and two years,’ said Liv-ex in a new report published this week for members. Its Champagne 50 index, featuring Krug, Cristal, Dom Pérignon, Salon and Taittinger Comtes de Champagne among others, has risen in value ...
Some Châteauneufs are more reliable than others. When I visit the region to taste the new vintage every year, Domaine de la Janasse’s cuvée Vieilles Vignes regularly features among the best. It’s a particularly dense and concentrated wine when young, and it always strikes me that, even for Châteauneuf, it’s a wine that needs extended ageing to show its best. I was keen to acquire a more complete understanding of how this cuvée develops, so I visited brother-and-sister team Isabelle and Christoph ...
