{"title":"Domaine Pierre Weber","description":"\u003cp\u003ePierre returned to his grandfather's estate in Husseren-les-Châteaux in 2018, leaving life as an environmental engineer in Paris behind when the yearning to return home to the vines could be ignored no longer. The estate covers four hectares on the hills of Husseren-les-Châteaux, with a hectare on the Grand Cru Eichberg. Most of the vines were planted between 1960 and 1970, and sit at a slightly higher elevation than the rest of Alsace, giving Pierre's wines their unmistakable cool freshness. Pierre's work in the vines draws on the influence of his grandfather and his father, the oenologist Jacques Weber, and he takes the effort and expense of having his work certified Bio and Demeter. Working from his meticulously kept cellar, Pierre’s wines are among the very best coming out of Alsace with their definitive character - mountain wine freshness and the ripe core of Alsace grown fruit.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"3-orange-2021-domaine-pierre-weber","title":"3 Orange 2021 - Domaine Pierre Weber","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe limestone of Eichberg tempers Gewurztraminer's natural exuberance into something more linear and finely detailed than the variety usually delivers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGood with:\u003c\/strong\u003e spiced pork belly, or a washed-rind cheese like Munster.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGewurztraminer from the Grand Cru Eichberg in Husseren-les-Châteaux, macerated on skins for nine days, then pressed and aged for nine months in old bordelaise barrels. Vinified without additives, no sulphur, no fining, no filtration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe producer\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePierre Weber grew up at the foot of three ruined medieval towers above Husseren-les-Châteaux, the highest village on the Alsace wine route, where his grandfather farmed vines and worked as a vigneron at Kuentz Bas. Pierre left: a Brevet de Technicien Supérieur in electrotechnology, then studies in renewable energy and urban planning, then five years developing Paris's climate action plan. After that he bought a van and drove the Silk Road. He came back to Husseren during the 2018 harvest, into the smell of fermenting juice from the cellars below the village, and did not leave again. He trained at the wine school in Rouffach and did internships with Valentin Zusslin in Orschwihr and at La Grange de l'Oncle Charles. His first vintage was 2019; 800 bottles of Riesling. The estate is around three hectares of calcareous marl and sandstone at 378 metres, split across several parcels including plots on the Grand Cru Eichberg, vines planted between 1962 and 2003. Biodynamic farming, certified Bio and Demeter since 2021. The cellar is built into the hillside; everything works by gravity, vertical press to barrel. Indigenous yeasts, nothing added, nothing removed, nothing filtered. He doesn't put Grand Cru on the labels.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe place\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eHusseren-les-Châteaux sits in the Vosges foothills southwest of Colmar, at the southern end of the Alsace wine route. Eichberg is one of fifty-one Alsace Grands Crus, a south-facing site at the top of the slope above the village, calcareous marl over limestone bedrock. The continental climate is moderated by the Vosges rain shadow, which makes Alsace one of the driest pockets in France. Gewurztraminer on this kind of limestone produces wines with more structure and less exotic-fruit flamboyance than the variety can give on heavier soils. Pierre's bottlings are part of a small but growing group of Alsace winemakers working without additives in a region that, until recently, was almost entirely conventional and reductive in style.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRegion:\u003c\/strong\u003e Husseren-les-Châteaux, Alsace, France\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Domaine Pierre Weber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54988699861330,"sku":"22\/004012","price":41.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1116\/0246\/7154\/files\/bw-3-orange-2021-2023.jpg?v=1793699098"},{"product_id":"3-orange-2023-domaine-pierre-weber","title":"3 Orange 2023 - Domaine Pierre Weber","description":"\u003cp\u003eGewurztraminer from the Grand Cru Eichberg in Husseren-les-Châteaux, macerated on skins for nine days, then pressed and aged for nine months in old bordelaise barrels. The limestone of Eichberg tempers Gewurz's natural exuberance into something more linear and finely detailed than the variety usually delivers, and Pierre’s delicate approach in the cellar preserves the aromatic majesty of the variety, while managing to retain sapidity and mineral drenched structure that is quite something.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe producer\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePierre returned to his grandfather's estate in Husseren-les-Châteaux in 2018, leaving life as an environmental engineer in Paris behind when the yearning to return home to the vines could be ignored no longer. The estate covers four hectares on the hills of Husseren-les-Chateaux, with a hectare on the Grand Cru Eichberg. Most of the vines were planted between 1960 and 1970, and sit at a slightly higher elevation than the rest of Alsace, giving Pierre's wines their unmistakable cool freshness. Pierre's work in the vines draws on the influence of his grandfather and his father, the oenologist Jacques Weber, and he takes the effort and expense of having his work certified Bio and Demeter. Working from his meticulously kept cellar, Pierre’s wines are among the very best coming out of Alsace with their definitive character - mountain wine freshness and the ripe core of Alsace grown fruit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe place\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollow the routes de vins d’Alsace south from Colmar, through Eguisheim, and the you’ll find Hussren-les-chateaux in your sight. It’s commanding hillside position sits at the foot of the Stauffen massif, below the three hilltop castles for which the village is named. This position in significant, these are the highest vineyards in Alsace, at about 350masl, with views all the way across to the Black forest on a clear day. The village is today home to a thriving and progressive winemaking movement. The microclimate here distinguishes the villages wines from elsewhere in Alsace, particularly the Pinot Noir which is well suited to the cooler nights of these elevated hillsides. 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