175 Gewurztraminer AC 2009
Domaine André Thomas

Grape:100% Gewurztraminer (13.5% alc, 18g/l of rs)

The aromas and tastes of this exceptional wine combine ripe mangoes, jasmine tea, lychees, flowers and rose water. Exotic with a capital E! For drinking now to 2012.

Technical Information
Winemaker:	François Thomas
Location:	Ammerschwihr
Size of domaine:	6 hectares, including 1.10 h of Gewurztraminer in 2 parcels. 0.90h in Kientzheim and 0.20 in plain of Ammerschwihr.
Grape:	Gewurztraminer – 50 years old on average. Selection massale on K161, 49 and 3309 rootstock.
Terroir:	South-facing 10% slope on limestone-clay in Kientzheim Granitic soil in the plain of Ammerschwihr.
Viticulture:	Agro-bio certified. Plough 1 row in 2 and leave grass to grow in other row. Rotate this practice every year. Prefers to select vines not liable to overcrop as very much against debudding and especially vendanges en verts. Manual harvest end Sep, early October. Average yield 60 hectos per hectare.
Vinification:	In stainless steel. Sometimes uses selected yeasts to guarantee a long, slow fermentation. The wine is fined with bentonite prior to the alcoholic fermentation, which lasts for 2 to 3 months. Racked after alcoholic fermentation, a little sulphur is added (which stops the malo-lactic fermentation). Then aged in mix of stainless steel and old Alsace foudres on fine lees. Prior to bottling the wine is filtered by kieselghur and then very gently by cellulose plaque. Bottling is in September 11 months after harvest using their own equipment.
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exc vat: £10.85