Winery René MeyerPinot Gris Alsace Grand Cru 'Florimont' Vendanges Tardives
Sweet wine
This wine generally goes well with rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or mature and hard cheese.
Food and wine pairings with Pinot Gris Alsace Grand Cru 'Florimont' Vendanges Tardives
Pairings that work perfectly with Pinot Gris Alsace Grand Cru 'Florimont' Vendanges Tardives
Original food and wine pairings with Pinot Gris Alsace Grand Cru 'Florimont' Vendanges Tardives
The Pinot Gris Alsace Grand Cru 'Florimont' Vendanges Tardives of Winery René Meyer matches generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of spaghetti with salmon, pageot or cannelloni with zucchini.
Details and technical informations about Winery René Meyer's Pinot Gris Alsace Grand Cru 'Florimont' Vendanges Tardives.
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 René Meyer
The Winery René Meyer is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 35 wines for sale in the of Alsace Grand Cru 'Florimont' to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Alsace Grand Cru 'Florimont'
Grand Cru in Ingersheim and Katzenthal (Haut-Rhin), ~308 m altitude, east-facing slope with southern part, marly-calcareous chalky soils, microclimate of the Colmar ellipse with only 550 mm of rainfall: Riesling is the signature white — opulent and generous sustained by ripe acidity with citrus of great elegance. Dense structured Gewurztraminer with floral and citrus notes, Pinot Gris and Muscat complement. Powerful wines of dense architecture.
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: Chambered
Said of a wine served at a temperature around 18 °.
