2024 Domaine Schoffit Pinot Noir Vendange Entiere Vieilles Vignes, Alsace, France Billecart-Salmon dry-farmed Cabernet Sauvignon vines

dry-farmed Cabernet Sauvignon vines

the resulting new wine was placed in four neutral 227L barriques where it rested for 9 months before being bottled unfined and unfiltered

and tree bark

then pressed softly

The wine was fermented with native yeasts in 2-5 year old Burgundy barrels

2024 Domaine Schoffit Pinot Noir Vendange Entiere Vieilles Vignes, Alsace, France Billecart-Salmon dry-farmed Cabernet Sauvignon vinesBernard Schoffit is a brilliant pioneer in Alsaces greatest Grand Cru, Rangen de Thann. The domaine started by Bernards father, Robert at 10 hectares, is situated near Colmar. 25 years ago, Bernard, then still very young, embarked on an ambitious program of buying land in Rangen, around the Clos St. Theobold. Totaling nearly 6. 5 hectares, a good part of it had been abandoned because it was too steep to work. Through sheer determination and ambition,