Riesling AC 2016, Thalberg
Key to symbols
White
Red
Rosé
White/Red Sweet
Further details
- Winemaker
- Julien Schmitt
- Location
- Thalberg, near the village of Bergbieten.
- Size of domaine
- 10.10 hectares in total (including 0.45ha for this cuvée)
- Grape
- 100% Riesling (50% of the vines are 35 yrs old and 50% are 15 years old) on SO4 and 167/49 rootstock from Riesling Clone 49. 4500 vines per hectare trained double guyot.
- Terroir
- Gypsum-marls soil 1m above the mother rocks. South/West facing vineyard. Very little slopes. 200mtrs above sea-level.
- Viticulture
- Certified organic with Ecocert© since 2010. Debud but do not carry out vendanges en vert (only if needed). Plough 1 row in 2 after harvest. Every other row mown, the other one hoed. Sulphur and Bordeaux-mixture against oidium and mildiou. Bacillus Turengentis against pest and organic treatment against grape worm. Depending on the parcels and their needs, cow manure can be used as a fertilizer during Autumn and Spring. If necessary, selective debudding, complete trellis, green harvest or thinning-out of leaves. Manual harvest, carefully sorted in the vineyards. 55 hectos per hectare yield.
- Vinification
- Pneumatic press. Long slow pressing (6 to 7 hours) of the whole bunches. Light settling of the juice after 30 hours. Vinified in stainless steel vat at 20- 22°C for between 1 to 10 months (average 10 weeks) using natural, indigenous yeasts. The temperature is controlled using a cold group and a heat exchanger. No chaptalisation. Malolactic fermentation is not permitted. Aged in stainless steel vat for 8 months. Racked twice, once after the alcoholic fermentation and once before bottling. Filtration kieselguhr and sterile filtration before bottling. Two bottling made by a service provider (one in March/April and another one in July/August). Around 2500 bottles produced on average.
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