2022 Domaine Weinbach Gewurztraminer Grand Cru Furstentum BIO

Type of Wine | White |
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Country | France |
Region | |
Winery | |
Vintage | 2022 |
Grape | |
Content (Alc) | 0.75 ltr (13.5%) |
Drink window | 2025 - 2051 |
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Description
Domaine Weinbach, also known as Clos des Capucins, is not only one of the very best domaines in Alsace, its refined and concentrated white wines are even considered among the best in the world. Grapes are picked by hand with very strict selection for perfect ripeness.
The Gewurztraminer Grand Cru Furstentum is a great wine. Bright gold yellow in color. In the nose very expressive aromas of exotic fruit, quince, dried rose petals and honeysuckle. The taste palette includes candied orange, lychees, tea leaves, clear residual sweetness and a hint of botrytis. An aftertaste that is full, powerful and very complex and is accompanied by nervously fresh acids. The drinking potential of this Grandcru Furstentum is unprecedented (2045+) and year after year it always achieves around 95/100 points at Parker and Suckling.
The Furstentum was already noted in the inventory of vines owned by the Monastery of Basel in the year 1330. The brown soils of the Furstentum around the villages of Kientzheim and Sigolsheim, are located at an altitude of between 300 and 400 meters and are rich of limestone and pebbles. This marl, limestone and sandstone terroir dates from the inferior Doggers era. Marl conveys strength and structure, and sandstone radiates elegance, sharpness and complexity. The Furstentum benefits from a southern exposure, and Mediterranean plants grow there. The slope is quite steep, making the most of the sunshine. This terroir shows remarkable aromatic complexity, great finesse and significant storage potential.
This wine is organic & biodynamic certified (Demeter)
Specifications
Type of Wine | White |
---|---|
Country | France |
Region | Alsace |
Winery | Domaine Weinbach |
Grape | Gewurztraminer |
Biological certified | Yes |
Natural wine | No |
Vegan | No |
Vintage | 2022 |
Drinking as of | 2025 |
Drinking till | 2051 |
Alcohol % | 13.5 |
Alcohol free/low | No |
Content | 0.75 ltr |
Oak aging | Yes |
Sparkling | No |
Dessert wine | No |
Closure | Cork |
Parker rating | 93 |
James Suckling rating | 98 |
Vinous rating | 95 |
Tasting Profiles | Aromatisch, Complex, Droog, Krachtig, Kruidig, Licht zoet, Mineraal, Rijk, Rond, Vol, Wit fruit |
Drink moments | Indruk maken, Lekker luxe, Met vrienden |
Professional Reviews
Parker
2020 Domaine Weinbach Grand Cru Furstentum Gewurztraminer
RP 93+
Reviewed by: Stephan Reinhardt
Drink Date: 2022 - 2045
The 2020 Grand Cru Furstentum Gewurztraminer opens with clear, fresh and pure, even minty scents on the nose that displays bright rather than dark fruit. Round and sweetish and initially with good freshness but not the depth complexity of the Altenbourg, this is an intense but also sweetish Gewurz with candied fruit aromas and a rather linear finish that doesn't open as much as the Altenbourg, although it is sweeter and maybe finer. 13.5% stated alcohol. Natural cork. Tasted at the domaine in May 2022.
Published: Mar 09, 2023
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James Suckling
DOMAINE WEINBACH GEWURZTRAMINER ALSACE GRAND CRU FURSTENTUM 2022
Score
98
Gewuz struggles to gain the recognition it deserves, but this is a truly extraordinary wine that is exotic, powerful and extremely concentrated, the vibrant minerality giving it a huge jolt of energy at the finish that might seem logically impossible. And after you swallow it,you feel like a cloud just floated by. From biodynamically grown grapes with Demeter certification. Drink or hold.
Stuart Pigott
Senior Editor
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Vinous
2021 Gewurztraminer Furstentum Grand Cru
95
Drinking Window
2026 - 2050
From: Alsace 2022 Whites – A Lucky Escape (Apr 2024)
The 2021 Gewurztraminer Furstentum Grand Cru opens with peach compote and trails vestiges of passion fruit. The palate is sweet with Mirabelle jelly, almost creamy. This seems to have an internal combustion engine putting out peach, puffing away, letting out bursts of lemon and rose, but coming to concentrated, orange zest and peach skin finish that is just so taut and bright. The 47 g/L of residual sweetness is a fact, and the wine itself is alchemy. I have to borrow Catherine Faller’s architectural simile, noting that this wine "starts Baroque but finishes Gothic." (Medium)
- By Anne Krebiehl MW on January 2024
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Domaine Weinbach, also known as Clos des Capucins, is not only one of the best Alsace domains, the refined and concentrated white wines are considered to be among the best in the world. The winery, which takes its name from the stream that flows through the vineyards on the spot, is located between the villages of Kaysersberg and Kientzheim and has a history that goes back a long way. In 860, the Abbey d'Etival obtained through a donation land that now belongs to the current vineyards of Domaine Weinbach.
A wall was built around a part of this plot in the early seventeenth century by Capuchin monks. This 5 hectare vineyard is the still existing Clos des Capucins. After the French Revolution, the vineyards and monastery were expropriated and sold by the state. Ultimately, it was the Faller brothers, two tanners from nearby Kaysersberg, who bought and refurbished the dilapidated abbey and its Clos des Capucins in 1898. Théo Faller continued the work of his father and uncle with great energy. He bought parts of surrounding Grand Cru vineyards such as Furstentumen, Schlossberg, Mambourg and Marckrain and brought the wines of Domaine Weinbach to an unprecedented level. With the third generation, the wines got even more refinement and depth, because from 1988 they first switched to organic viticulture and then in 2005 the choice was made to do the 28 hectares of vineyards and winemaking entirely according to biodynamic principles. The result is amazing; the white wines now have an unprecedented minerality, finesse and concentration. It is the result of natural preparations, acting according to the position of the moon and stars, drastic pruning at an early stage, hand picking grapes with optimal ripeness, with very low yields and preferably with the first effects of the noble rot and further a vinification with as little intervention as possible.
Domaine Weinbach, also known as Clos des Capucins, is not only one of the very best domaines in Alsace, its refined and concentrated white wines are even considered among the best in the world. Grapes are picked by hand with very strict selection for perfect ripeness.
The Gewurztraminer Grand Cru Furstentum is a great wine. Bright gold yellow in color. In the nose very expressive aromas of exotic fruit, quince, dried rose petals and honeysuckle. The taste palette includes candied orange, lychees, tea leaves, clear residual sweetness and a hint of botrytis. An aftertaste that is full, powerful and very complex and is accompanied by nervously fresh acids. The drinking potential of this Grandcru Furstentum is unprecedented (2045+) and year after year it always achieves around 95/100 points at Parker and Suckling.
The Furstentum was already noted in the inventory of vines owned by the Monastery of Basel in the year 1330. The brown soils of the Furstentum around the villages of Kientzheim and Sigolsheim, are located at an altitude of between 300 and 400 meters and are rich of limestone and pebbles. This marl, limestone and sandstone terroir dates from the inferior Doggers era. Marl conveys strength and structure, and sandstone radiates elegance, sharpness and complexity. The Furstentum benefits from a southern exposure, and Mediterranean plants grow there. The slope is quite steep, making the most of the sunshine. This terroir shows remarkable aromatic complexity, great finesse and significant storage potential.
This wine is organic & biodynamic certified (Demeter)
Type of Wine | White |
---|---|
Country | France |
Region | Alsace |
Winery | Domaine Weinbach |
Grape | Gewurztraminer |
Biological certified | Yes |
Natural wine | No |
Vegan | No |
Vintage | 2022 |
Drinking as of | 2025 |
Drinking till | 2051 |
Alcohol % | 13.5 |
Alcohol free/low | No |
Content | 0.75 ltr |
Oak aging | Yes |
Sparkling | No |
Dessert wine | No |
Closure | Cork |
Parker rating | 93 |
James Suckling rating | 98 |
Vinous rating | 95 |
Tasting Profiles | Aromatisch, Complex, Droog, Krachtig, Kruidig, Licht zoet, Mineraal, Rijk, Rond, Vol, Wit fruit |
Drink moments | Indruk maken, Lekker luxe, Met vrienden |
Parker
2020 Domaine Weinbach Grand Cru Furstentum Gewurztraminer
RP 93+
Reviewed by: Stephan Reinhardt
Drink Date: 2022 - 2045
The 2020 Grand Cru Furstentum Gewurztraminer opens with clear, fresh and pure, even minty scents on the nose that displays bright rather than dark fruit. Round and sweetish and initially with good freshness but not the depth complexity of the Altenbourg, this is an intense but also sweetish Gewurz with candied fruit aromas and a rather linear finish that doesn't open as much as the Altenbourg, although it is sweeter and maybe finer. 13.5% stated alcohol. Natural cork. Tasted at the domaine in May 2022.
Published: Mar 09, 2023
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James Suckling
DOMAINE WEINBACH GEWURZTRAMINER ALSACE GRAND CRU FURSTENTUM 2022
Score
98
Gewuz struggles to gain the recognition it deserves, but this is a truly extraordinary wine that is exotic, powerful and extremely concentrated, the vibrant minerality giving it a huge jolt of energy at the finish that might seem logically impossible. And after you swallow it,you feel like a cloud just floated by. From biodynamically grown grapes with Demeter certification. Drink or hold.
Stuart Pigott
Senior Editor
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua...
Vinous
2021 Gewurztraminer Furstentum Grand Cru
95
Drinking Window
2026 - 2050
From: Alsace 2022 Whites – A Lucky Escape (Apr 2024)
The 2021 Gewurztraminer Furstentum Grand Cru opens with peach compote and trails vestiges of passion fruit. The palate is sweet with Mirabelle jelly, almost creamy. This seems to have an internal combustion engine putting out peach, puffing away, letting out bursts of lemon and rose, but coming to concentrated, orange zest and peach skin finish that is just so taut and bright. The 47 g/L of residual sweetness is a fact, and the wine itself is alchemy. I have to borrow Catherine Faller’s architectural simile, noting that this wine "starts Baroque but finishes Gothic." (Medium)
- By Anne Krebiehl MW on January 2024
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Domaine Weinbach, also known as Clos des Capucins, is not only one of the best Alsace domains, the refined and concentrated white wines are considered to be among the best in the world. The winery, which takes its name from the stream that flows through the vineyards on the spot, is located between the villages of Kaysersberg and Kientzheim and has a history that goes back a long way. In 860, the Abbey d'Etival obtained through a donation land that now belongs to the current vineyards of Domaine Weinbach.
A wall was built around a part of this plot in the early seventeenth century by Capuchin monks. This 5 hectare vineyard is the still existing Clos des Capucins. After the French Revolution, the vineyards and monastery were expropriated and sold by the state. Ultimately, it was the Faller brothers, two tanners from nearby Kaysersberg, who bought and refurbished the dilapidated abbey and its Clos des Capucins in 1898. Théo Faller continued the work of his father and uncle with great energy. He bought parts of surrounding Grand Cru vineyards such as Furstentumen, Schlossberg, Mambourg and Marckrain and brought the wines of Domaine Weinbach to an unprecedented level. With the third generation, the wines got even more refinement and depth, because from 1988 they first switched to organic viticulture and then in 2005 the choice was made to do the 28 hectares of vineyards and winemaking entirely according to biodynamic principles. The result is amazing; the white wines now have an unprecedented minerality, finesse and concentration. It is the result of natural preparations, acting according to the position of the moon and stars, drastic pruning at an early stage, hand picking grapes with optimal ripeness, with very low yields and preferably with the first effects of the noble rot and further a vinification with as little intervention as possible.