Winery Jean GeilerPinot Gris Alsace Grand Cru 'Wineck-Schlossberg'
White wine
This wine generally goes well with pork, cured meat or mushrooms.
Food and wine pairings with Pinot Gris Alsace Grand Cru 'Wineck-Schlossberg'
Pairings that work perfectly with Pinot Gris Alsace Grand Cru 'Wineck-Schlossberg'
Original food and wine pairings with Pinot Gris Alsace Grand Cru 'Wineck-Schlossberg'
The Pinot Gris Alsace Grand Cru 'Wineck-Schlossberg' of Winery Jean Geiler matches generally quite well with dishes of pork, spicy food or mushrooms such as recipes of italian pasta, chicken tajine with prunes or sauté of pork with chorizo.
Details and technical informations about Winery Jean Geiler's Pinot Gris Alsace Grand Cru 'Wineck-Schlossberg'.
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 Jean Geiler
The Winery Jean Geiler is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 101 wines for sale in the of Alsace Grand Cru 'Wineck-Schlossberg' to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Alsace Grand Cru 'Wineck-Schlossberg'
Grand Cru in Katzenthal and Ammerschwihr, Haut-Rhin (south-facing amphitheatre at 280–390 m, steep slopes sheltered by 3 hills around Château Wineck, two-mica Turckheim granite, acid free-draining soil): Riesling is the signature white (70%) — finely mineral and elegant with lively citrus, characteristic tense salinity of granite. Gewurztraminer (18%), Pinot Gris (10%, often noble rot) and Muscat (2%).
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: Sabrer (champagne)
A cavalier and folkloric way of opening a bottle of champagne by breaking the neck with a sharp blow given with the top of the blade of a sabre.
