Domaine in Black Evolution d'Octobre 2022
Alsace, France
Pinot Gris, Pinot Noir
Former social worker Lambert Spielmann has been farming just over two hectares in and around the commune of Epfig since 2017. A sensitive farmer and a meticulous winemaker, we have grown to love Lambert’s wines for their delicious and thrilling fruit, balance and precision, and harmony of texture.
We have also enjoyed seeing the way these wines so faithfully reflect vintage conditions over the past few years. Stylistically, 2022 has proven to be a very balanced year. There are elements of the more austere, mineral and structured 2020 and 2021 vintages, with their cool conditions and thick skins, but in 2022 this is balanced well by more generous, concentrated, physiologically ripe fruit on the mid-palate.
This cuvee comes from a 40-year-old-parcel planted over sandstone in Reichsfeld and is mostly direct-press pinot gris, with pinot gris and pinot noir co-fermented as whole bunches making up the balance, resulting in a rosé wine. Elevage took place in steel vats.
Today, the wine is light-to-medium bodied, fairly compact and taut — a delicate kiss of CO2 giving the wine lovely energy on the palate. There are earthen shades of white pinot gris fruit as well as some foresty and slightly candied red fruit from the pinot noir, with lovely, delicate bitterness on the back-palate.
As we have come to expect from Lambert, the wine is quite versatile, and would do very nicely either as an aperitif or with lighter dishes.
Alsace, France
Pinot Gris, Pinot Noir
Former social worker Lambert Spielmann has been farming just over two hectares in and around the commune of Epfig since 2017. A sensitive farmer and a meticulous winemaker, we have grown to love Lambert’s wines for their delicious and thrilling fruit, balance and precision, and harmony of texture.
We have also enjoyed seeing the way these wines so faithfully reflect vintage conditions over the past few years. Stylistically, 2022 has proven to be a very balanced year. There are elements of the more austere, mineral and structured 2020 and 2021 vintages, with their cool conditions and thick skins, but in 2022 this is balanced well by more generous, concentrated, physiologically ripe fruit on the mid-palate.
This cuvee comes from a 40-year-old-parcel planted over sandstone in Reichsfeld and is mostly direct-press pinot gris, with pinot gris and pinot noir co-fermented as whole bunches making up the balance, resulting in a rosé wine. Elevage took place in steel vats.
Today, the wine is light-to-medium bodied, fairly compact and taut — a delicate kiss of CO2 giving the wine lovely energy on the palate. There are earthen shades of white pinot gris fruit as well as some foresty and slightly candied red fruit from the pinot noir, with lovely, delicate bitterness on the back-palate.
As we have come to expect from Lambert, the wine is quite versatile, and would do very nicely either as an aperitif or with lighter dishes.
Alsace, France
Pinot Gris, Pinot Noir
Former social worker Lambert Spielmann has been farming just over two hectares in and around the commune of Epfig since 2017. A sensitive farmer and a meticulous winemaker, we have grown to love Lambert’s wines for their delicious and thrilling fruit, balance and precision, and harmony of texture.
We have also enjoyed seeing the way these wines so faithfully reflect vintage conditions over the past few years. Stylistically, 2022 has proven to be a very balanced year. There are elements of the more austere, mineral and structured 2020 and 2021 vintages, with their cool conditions and thick skins, but in 2022 this is balanced well by more generous, concentrated, physiologically ripe fruit on the mid-palate.
This cuvee comes from a 40-year-old-parcel planted over sandstone in Reichsfeld and is mostly direct-press pinot gris, with pinot gris and pinot noir co-fermented as whole bunches making up the balance, resulting in a rosé wine. Elevage took place in steel vats.
Today, the wine is light-to-medium bodied, fairly compact and taut — a delicate kiss of CO2 giving the wine lovely energy on the palate. There are earthen shades of white pinot gris fruit as well as some foresty and slightly candied red fruit from the pinot noir, with lovely, delicate bitterness on the back-palate.
As we have come to expect from Lambert, the wine is quite versatile, and would do very nicely either as an aperitif or with lighter dishes.