The Winery Jean-Claude Buecher of Crémant d'Alsace of Alsace

Winery Jean-Claude Buecher - Crémant d'Alsace
The winery offers 11 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.9.
It is ranked in the top 19 of the estates of Alsace.
It is located in Crémant d'Alsace in the region of Alsace

The Winery Jean-Claude Buecher is one of the world's great estates. It offers 11 wines for sale in of Crémant d'Alsace to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Jean-Claude Buecher wines

Looking for the best Winery Jean-Claude Buecher wines in Crémant d'Alsace among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Jean-Claude Buecher wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Winery Jean-Claude Buecher wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top sparkling wines of Winery Jean-Claude Buecher

Food and wine pairings with a sparkling wine of Winery Jean-Claude Buecher

How Winery Jean-Claude Buecher wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, poultry or appetizers and snacks such as recipes of tagliatelle with seafood and saffron cream, salmon koulibiac or pan con tomate.

Organoleptic analysis of sparkling wines of Winery Jean-Claude Buecher

On the nose the sparkling wine of Winery Jean-Claude Buecher. often reveals types of flavors of cream, grapefruit or green apple and sometimes also flavors of raspberry, microbio or tree fruit. In the mouth the sparkling wine of Winery Jean-Claude Buecher. is a powerful with a nice vivacity and a fine and pleasant bubble.

The best vintages in the sparkling wines of Winery Jean-Claude Buecher

  • 2013With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.87/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.81/5

The grape varieties most used in the sparkling wines of Winery Jean-Claude Buecher.

  • Pinot Noir
  • Pinot Blanc
  • Chardonnay
  • Auxerrois
  • Pinot Meunier

Discovering the wine region of Crémant d'Alsace

Crémant d'Alsace is the appellation for white and rosé Sparkling wines from the Alsace wine region in northeastern France. Introduced in August 1976, the appellation now accounts for about a quarter of the region's production, or about 45 million bottles per year, up from 31 million in 2009. Outside of Champagne (240km to the west), it is the dominant French sparkling wine appellation, with more than half of all crémant production. The cooperatives are the most important players, with Wolfberger alone producing 6 to 7 million bottles.

But many of the region's most prestigious estates produce sparkling wines. As with all French Crémant appellations, the traditional method is used to make Crémant d'Alsace. The wines must spend a minimum of nine months maturing on their lees to ensure a certain level of complexity. This ageing on the lees gives the wines a toasty, nutty, sometimes flinty Character.

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Discover the grape variety: Pinot

Pinot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Burgundy). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small bunches, and small grapes. Pinot noir can be found in many vineyards: Burgundy, Alsace, Jura, South-West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Savoie & Bugey, Loire Valley, Champagne, Armagnac, Lorraine, Beaujolais, Rhône Valley, Provence & Corsica.

News about Winery Jean-Claude Buecher and wines from the region

France expects bigger 2022 wine harvest but drought is a concern

France’s 2022 wine harvest is likely to be between 42.6 million and 45.6m hectolitres, up by 13% to 21% on the frost-hit 2021 vintage and more in-line with the country’s five-year average. One hectolitre is equivalent to 100 litres. Yet drought could impact on yields in the coming weeks, adding extra uncertainty in several regions, said the French agriculture ministry’s Agreste statistics unit. Expected vintage quality isn’t covered by the preliminary outlook. It added the 2022 growing season is ...

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The word of the wine: Concentrator

A device that removes water from grape must by reverse osmosis or entropy system. Its proponents say that it is better to remove water than to add sugar to produce more alcohol. The improperly used concentrator can also exaggerate bad tastes or greenness of tannins.

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