Albert Mann - Gewürztraminer Alsace Grand Cru Furstentum 2007 (750ml)
Albert Mann - Gewürztraminer Alsace Grand Cru Furstentum 2007 (750ml)
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The Albert Mann estate owns 2.5 hectares in Furstentum (in other words, roughly 9% of this 28-hectare Grand Cru), distributed over eight different parcels. The vieilles vignes of Gewurztraminer are true old vines that are, on average, more than fifty years old. Some were planted as far back as the 1930s. Two of the original five parcels of old vines needed to be uprooted due to old age and low productivity and aren’t yet back in production as the new vines are currently only four years old. The south-facing Furstentum plots are located between 300 and 350 meters above sea level (the Grand Cru, as a whole, runs from 300 to 400 meters’ altitude), but the local climate is not as hot or sun-drenched as the southern exposure of the vines might lead one to believe. A heavily forested area just above the vineyard helps create a relatively cool environment. Although noble rot (Botrytis cinerea) does not does not develop as extensively in the Furstenstum as it does in Altenbourg, a Premier Cru-quality site situated just below, characterized by richer soil and much higher humidity, there is enough botrytis to produce Séléctions de Grains Nobles wines as well.
The Furstentum Gewurztraminer vieilles vignes are planted to massale selections on 161-49 rootstock, which is not especially vigorous and is both ideally suited Gewurztraminer and the hard limestone soils of the Furstentum’s steep slopes. According to Maurice Barthelmé, the Furstentum is one of the four or five greatest sites in Alsace for Gewurztraminer, a list that includes, in his view, such hallowed names as Zinnkoepflé, Goldert and Kirchberg de Barr. Barthelmé believes that the Hengst and the Mambourg Grand Crus also produce great Gewurztraminers, but he feels that the examples from these two very famous sites are longer on power and shorter on refinement than those made from Furstentum grapes. To be sure, Mambourg Gewurztraminers, which are perhaps the most opulent and powerful examples of the variety made anywhere in the world, can be low on acidity in the hottest vintages. I also think that the Grand Crus of Eichberg (in Eguisheim) and Sporen (in Riquewihr) deserve to be counted among the top sites for Gewurztraminer.
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