Winery HartwegPinot Gris Alsace Grand Cru 'Sonnenglanz'
White wine
This wine generally goes well with pork, cured meat or mushrooms.
Food and wine pairings with Pinot Gris Alsace Grand Cru 'Sonnenglanz'
Pairings that work perfectly with Pinot Gris Alsace Grand Cru 'Sonnenglanz'
Original food and wine pairings with Pinot Gris Alsace Grand Cru 'Sonnenglanz'
The Pinot Gris Alsace Grand Cru 'Sonnenglanz' of Winery Hartweg matches generally quite well with dishes of pork, spicy food or mushrooms such as recipes of leek, goat cheese and bacon quiche, traditional tagine (morocco) or chicken with morels and white wine.
Details and technical informations about Winery Hartweg's Pinot Gris Alsace Grand Cru 'Sonnenglanz'.
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 Winery Hartweg
The Winery Hartweg is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 42 wines for sale in the of Alsace Grand Cru 'Sonnenglanz' to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Alsace Grand Cru 'Sonnenglanz'
Grand Cru of Beblenheim in Haut-Rhin (~33 ha, 220–270 m, south-east exposure, 10–25% gentle slopes, brown clay-limestone soils on Oligocene conglomerates and marls, very low rainfall ~600 mm): Pinot Gris is the signature king white (50%) — full and warm with ripe yellow fruits and honeyed notes characteristic of marl-limestone. Gewurztraminer (42%) opulent exotic spiced fruits, Riesling (8%) taut. "Sunshine" in Alsatian.
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: Trader-Handler
Champagne term for a merchant who buys grapes to make a Champagne wine himself.
