Domaine Christian Binner Saveurs Blanc N/V
Domaine Christian Binner Saveurs Blanc N/V
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2020 was a warm, solar year for Alsace, while 21 was wet and challenging, with lower yields yet appealing acidity. Christian, therefore, decided to blend them together in this flavorsome white cuvée! 2020/2021 was mostly Auxerrois, Pinot Blanc, and Chasselas, accompanied by Gewurztraminer, Pinot Gris and Riesling. Grown in various plots of the Domaine, mainly on granite soils, including very beautiful hillside terroirs, Hinterberg, Sonnenberg, and Bildstoecklé. Practicing biodynamics, phytotherapy, and the precepts of permaculture and regenerative agriculture. Vineyards certified organic since 2023. Once gently pressed, the alcoholic and malolactic fermentations happen spontaneously over many months with natural yeasts in old oak barrels and foudres. Aged 11 months on the lees in the same vessels in Christian’s bioclimatic cellar. Blended and bottled unfined. A small part (25%) of the 2020/2021 blend was lightly filtered and lightly sulfured. The rest of the blend, like all of his wines, is unfined and unfiltered, with zero sulfur added. Personality: a fruity, easy-drinking white with a pleasant acidity that brings a whole range of saveurs (flavors) to any day of the week! The Binners have been farming in the village of Ammerschwihr since 1770, first in polyculture, and since WWII as full-on wine growers. Christian was lucky that his ancestors, although never officially certified, always worked the land in the organic spirit. “Even in the 1950s, when mechanization and fertilizers started to take over, my father quickly realized that he preferred to continue to work as he was used to, i.e. with a lot of handwork, manure and natural treatments for the vineyards. Thanks to this, we have this enormous luck of having vines as old as the 1930s, planted by my grandfather, that never saw chemicals in their life,” Christian retraces the family history. His father Joseph was similarly careful in the cellar, and, with the help of the legendary Beaujolais grower and natural wine trailblazer Marcel Lapierre, who became a family friend, they were already making wines without added sulfur in the 1990s.
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