Type

Sparkling Wine

Appellation

Crémant d'Alsace

Variety

55% Chardonnay
45% Pinot Noir

Notes from Bernard Bohn on the personality of this wine: "Dry sparkling white wine, issued from Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. I’m rejoicing after several long years of aging on the lees. I am a harmonious crémant with fine bubbles, elegant and complex, who reveals the excellence of my terroir. My nose shows notes of almonds and saffron enlaced with aromas of sandalwood and comes together with a freshness that is both mineral and salty. One can enjoy me with salmon in sauce, pan-seared scallops, roast fowl, or alone as an apéritif."

Viticulture

Vineyard name

Reichsfeld

Soil type

40% Schist and 60% Volcanic Sandstone

Vine age1980s

Vineyard sizePlanted 5260 vines/hectare

PruningGuyot avec arcure

ExpositionSouth, Southeast

Altitude340m

Vinification

Fermentation with native yeasts

ElevageMinimum 3 years "sur lattes" (sur-lie) before disgorgement

Harvest typeHand Harvested

Fining/FilteringNo fining. Earth filtration before bottling.

Additional info

Total production average5500 bottles

More about
the producer

Domaine Bohn

Founded in 1700s

9 hectares

Since taking over the family winery at the age of 18, Bernard Bohn has crafted an individually unique style of wines on the only outcrop of schist terroir in Alsace. The Bohn family members have been winegrowers for well over three centuries in Reichsfeld, a small village at the far end of the valley, where until recently, the local Alsatian dialect was still more common than French. Today, Bernard and his son Arthur farm just over 9 hectares and go beyond organic agriculture to incorporate uncommon techniques, such as completely abandoning vineyard plowing and allowing cover crops to coexist to create balance in the vines.

Bernard has always had an independent streak. While still in high school, he decided to leave his Jesuit boarding school and enroll in the local wine...