![]() It’s this extraordinary harmony between this site and soil, this place and this grape variety, which successive generations of winemakers have understood and strived to preserve and promote by making Riesling the focus of the Schlossberg Grand Cru for over a century. Riesling is the main variety planted on the hillsides of the Schlossberg Grand Cru, it gives wonderful expression to the mineral potential of this granite terroir. The sandy, clay soils have a rich minerality (mostly potassium, magnesium, fluorine, and phosphorus), which gives full expression to this unique terroir. The material composing the parent rock here resulted from the metamorphosic crystallization of migmatites (a blend of gneiss and granite) and biotite granite from Kaysersberg. A small, detached part of the site looks towards the east. The majority of this Grand Cru faces due south on the Bixkoepfel hillside. Harmoniously arranged, a succession of terraces covers the plots at between 230 and 400 m in altitude. Over a thousand metres of backing walls built in the Middle Ages have since patiently been restored. The 80.28 hectares of this Grand Cru sit on a very steep hillside which required terraces to be built. This is a family deeply rooted in Alsace and one of its finest producers and custodians.Įight kilometers from Colmar, Schlossberg’s terraced slopes look out over the Weiss valley from the outskirts of Kientzheim up to the medieval Kaysersberg castle. The family overseas 35 hectares of vineyards, which includes five Grands crus covering 12 hectares, and four Lieux-Dits covering 12 hectares. ![]() The Blanck family has been established in Alsace since the late 16th century and in the wine business in Kientzheim since the early 19th. Domaine Paul Blanck, Schlossberg Grand Cru, Riesling, Alsace 2017
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