Cellar Tour and Tasting with Adrien Schoenheitz at Vins Schoenheitz in Wihr-au-Val, Alsace - Germany-South and Alsace 2022 by ombiasy WineTours

 

Domaine Schoenheitz is located in the valley of Munster, where the famous Munster Cheese come from, south of Colmar.

We were hosted by Adrien Schoenheitz, who I had met and arranged with the tour before the covid period at a winemaker dinner Northern Virginia.

 

Adrien toured with us the wine cellar before sitting down in the tasting room for a tasting. At the end of the wine tasting we were served some Munster cheese and a Gugelhupf.

Gugelhupf is a yeasted cake dotted with raisins that’s baked in a tall, creased, circular mold with a circular hole in the middle.  The names comes from the old German words gugel (“hood” or “bonnet”) and hupf (“hop” or “jump”).  It is thought that the name refers to the shape of the cake and the rising (or “jumping”) action of the yeast.  It’s a very old, traditional cake that is especially popular in Germany, France, Switzerland and Austria.

Picture: Winemaker Dinner with Adrien Schoenheitz, Owner/ Winemaker, Domaine Schoenheitz in Alsace and Chef Chef Jacques Haeringer at L'Auberge Chez Francois in Great Falls/ Northern Virginia/ USA 

Domaine Schoenheitz

Vines have grown in this region of Alsace since medieval times. 

In the 1970s, Henri Schoenheitz, passionate about history and love of this land where he was born, undertakes to give new life to this beautiful vineyard, whose legacy was almost forgotten. Slowly, while this is still a mixed farming region, he redraws the original contours of the Wihr-au-Val vineyards and clears and replants the steep hillsides. In 1980, Henri Schoenheitz and his wife Dominque, graduates in viticulture and oenology, vinified their first vintage. 

Today they cultivate 45 acres of vineyards which are entirely concentrated on the steep slopes of the magnificent Valley of Munster, at the beginning of the Vosges Mountains and are the highest vineyards in Alsace. The slopes are so steep that using machinery is impossible and everything has to be worked by hand. Granitic soils and extreme conditions of vine growing develop pure and great expression of the noble grape varieties of Alsace. 

The Schoenheitz follow a sustainable agriculture respectful to the environment: minimizing the pollution of waters, air and soil, preserving and supporting the long-term balance of soil, planting natural grass between the rows, using no chemical fertilizers, limiting all treatments to those strictly necessary, a strict selection on the vine, and considering the carbon footprint.

Arriving

Cellar Tour

Tasting

Guglhupf and Munster Cheese

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