Domaine Bechtold Engelberg Pinot Gris 'Comme un Rouge' Alsace Grand Cru 2022 Size:750ml Two parcels

Two parcels

The resulting wine is beautifully textured

4 hectares on friable clay-limestone soils strewn with galet-stones in Sarrians

The vines planted back then yield a wine of eye-popping stoniness and length whose fearsome terroir imprint all but buries the 50% new wood Alexandre employs for its élevage

Domaine Bechtold Engelberg Pinot Gris 'Comme un Rouge' Alsace Grand Cru 2022 Size:750ml Two parcelsIt is one thing to play with varietals from a lesser site; to convert a portion of grand cru fruit in such a manner requires a more substantial level of commitment. With three weeks of skin contact, the Comme un Rouge (like a red) shows up Pinot Gris for the dark skinned white grape it is so often produced and marketed as. Looking more like a dark ros in the glass, this possesses an elemental sense of limestone, with notes of dates, macerated