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The fruit fermented spontaneously with 20% bunches and spent about 20 days on skins. It was raised in mature Burgundy barrels for 14 months before being bottled unfiltered.
Of course, no discussion would be complete without mention of the great women who established the modern Domaine Weinbach: Colette Faller and her two daughters, Laurence and Catherine. Sadly, two of these great wine women have been lost to us. Today, the emblematic Catherine Faller—surely France’s most charismatic First Lady of wine—is the matriarch. Working with Catherine are her sons, Théo and Eddy Faller, who oversee the day-to-day running of the domaine and are driving it to higher peaks. Longstanding maître de chai, Ghislain Berthiot, revels in the phenomenal fruit quality the Faller family give him to work with.
Domaine Weinbach farms 32 hectares of vineyards, predominantly Grand Cru. The most famous terroir is the majestic Schlossberg hill, closely followed by the walled Clos de Capucins, a Weinbach fiefdom that lies around the house and its cellars. Put simply, Schlossberg is one of the greatest Riesling vineyards in the world. Its quality was well-known as early as the 15th century. For this reason, it was the first vineyard in Alsace to receive the status of Grand Cru in 1975.
Weinbach owns eight hectares of this terroir. Another of the Faller’s great terroirs is the monopole, Clos de Capucins. Taking its name from the Capuchin friars who arrived here in 1619, the clos is at the bottom of a slope, well protected from winds by the surrounding hills. Its soils consist of sand, alluvium, granite gravel and pebbles. And we should not forget the majestic Furstentum Grand Cru, which produces some of the world’s most profound Gewurztraminer in the gifted hands of the Faller family.
