Variety: Pinot Noir and 5% Pinot Gris, Pinot Beurot, & Pinot Blanc
In the village of Bergheim in Alsace is where the Deiss domaine lies. Jean-Michel Deiss inherited the Schoenenbourg vineyard, which was planted to several grape varieties instead of one. Using this to his advantage, he sought to vinify his wines as blends, going against the norm of the region at the time. Taking the blending style in his stride, every one of his top vineyards were then planted to this style of coplanting. The Deiss expression of terroir is unparalleled in the region when reinforced with the usage of biodynamic farming and natural winemaking. Mathieu has now joined his father. They are not only leaders in the region, but do not conform to trends.
As is typical for the Deiss wines, they’re a true field blend representing the vineyard, soils and microclimate as a whole as opposed to focusing on one what grape variety. While the blend is primarily Pinot Noir, the remainder of the blend are the white Pinot varieties. The site is comprised of poor granite soils on a south facing slope known as St. Hippolyte. Aging is done in 80% steel while the other 20% goes into older barrels for a year.
