Winery Jean BeckerRiesling Alsace Grand Cru 'Schlossberg'
White wine
This wine generally goes well with pork, vegetarian or rich fish (salmon, tuna etc).
Food and wine pairings with Riesling Alsace Grand Cru 'Schlossberg'
Pairings that work perfectly with Riesling Alsace Grand Cru 'Schlossberg'
Original food and wine pairings with Riesling Alsace Grand Cru 'Schlossberg'
The Riesling Alsace Grand Cru 'Schlossberg' of Winery Jean Becker matches generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or spicy food such as recipes of country-style snow peas, sushi cake or lamb tagine with prunes and almonds.
Details and technical informations about Winery Jean Becker's Riesling Alsace Grand Cru 'Schlossberg'.
Discover the grape variety: Riesling
Crystalline, taut whites with vibrant acidity and aromas of citrus, green apple, white flowers, vineyard peach and mineral/petrol notes with age. Made as dry (Trocken, Alsace), off-dry (Kabinett, Spätlese) and sweet (Auslese, Beerenauslese, Trockenbeerenauslese, late harvest). Star of the Moselle, Rheingau, Alsace AOC and Wachau. Also exported to Clare Valley and Finger Lakes.
Informations about the Winery Jean Becker
The Winery Jean Becker is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 48 wines for sale in the of Alsace Grand Cru 'Schlossberg' to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Alsace Grand Cru 'Schlossberg'
Grand Cru on steep terraces between Kientzheim and Kaysersberg (~80 ha, 230-400 m, slightly acidic sandy-silty migmatitic granite, full south aspect): signature Riesling (76%) on ideal granite — airy profile with fine acidity, floral aromas of great delicacy, harmonious elegant structure, vibrant stony granite minerality, fullness after several years. Gewurztraminer (13%), Pinot Gris (10%) and Muscat as complements.
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: Polyphenols
Substance contained essentially in the skin of the grape. The main ones are anthocyanins, which give red wines their colour and tannins.
