Château d'OrschwihrPinot Gris Alsace Grand Cru 'Pfingstberg'
White wine
This wine generally goes well with pork, cured meat or mushrooms.
Food and wine pairings with Pinot Gris Alsace Grand Cru 'Pfingstberg'
Pairings that work perfectly with Pinot Gris Alsace Grand Cru 'Pfingstberg'
Original food and wine pairings with Pinot Gris Alsace Grand Cru 'Pfingstberg'
The Pinot Gris Alsace Grand Cru 'Pfingstberg' of Château d'Orschwihr matches generally quite well with dishes of pork, spicy food or mushrooms such as recipes of roast pork with milk, chakchouka or bulgogi.
Details and technical informations about Château d'Orschwihr's Pinot Gris Alsace Grand Cru 'Pfingstberg'.
Discover the grape variety: Pinot gris
Rich, ample whites with a golden robe, showing aromas of pear, quince, honey, smoke, ginger and spice. Made as structured dry wines (Alsace AOC), off-dry and sumptuous late-harvest sweet (vendange tardive, sélection de grains nobles). Lighter and crisper in Italy as Pinot Grigio (Veneto, Friuli). Also in Germany (Grauburgunder), Hungary (Szürkebarát) and Oregon. A grey mutation of Pinot Noir.
Informations about the Château d'Orschwihr
The Château d'Orschwihr is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 38 wines for sale in the of Alsace Grand Cru 'Pfingstberg' to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Alsace Grand Cru 'Pfingstberg'
Grand Cru of Orschwihr in Haut-Rhin (28 ha, 270–370 m on steep terraced slopes, southeast-facing backed by the Vosges, siliceous muschelkalk shell limestone with low water retention): Riesling in white (51%) — chiselled and fresh with tense salinity, late-harvest microclimate favouring noble rot. Gewurztraminer (27%) with airy elegance, Pinot Gris (21%) racy on the lower clay section, Muscat (1%) delicate.
The wine region of Alsace
Capital of great French aromatic whites, most often dry and single-varietal. Straight, mineral Riesling (lemon, gunflint), opulent, exuberant Gewurztraminer (lychee, rose, spices), round, smoky Pinot Gris, floral, crisp Muscat, supple Pinot Blanc. Fine, fruity Crémants d'Alsace, exceptional sweet Vendanges Tardives and Sélection de Grains Nobles. 15,500 ha at the foot of the Vosges on varied soils, 51 Grands Crus since 1975.
The word of the wine: Phenolic ripeness
A distinction is made between the ripeness of sugars and acids and the ripeness of tannins and other compounds such as anthocyanins and tannins, which will bring structure and colour. Grapes can be measured at 13° potential without having reached this phenolic maturity. Vinified at this stage, they will give hard, astringent wines, without charm.
