Gustave Lorentz

During the Thirty Years’ War, the Lorentz family still wasn’t based in Bergheim, but in the town of Ribeauvillé. Michel Lorentz, “A la Fleur” inn-keeper having received the right of citizenship. Adam Lorentz (1667-1744) worked in the gourmet sector here. Finally, Michel Lorentz is cited as cooper in 1725.

A branch of the Lorentz family moved to Bergheim in 1748 following the marriage of Jean-Georges Lorentz, winemaker and farrier.
His son,...

Grand Cru Altenberg de Bergheim

On the outside the medieval town of Bergheim, the vineyard extends along the south side of the hillock Grasberg, steeply sloping at an altitude of 220-320 metres.
At the heart of the field of faults in Ribeauvillé, limestone and marls from the Jurassic period overlap and, underneath consists of red calcareous clay soils that are very stony, shallow and rich in fossils.

The south-facing exposure, the ...

Alsatian Vineyard

The geographical location of the Alsatian Wine-growing region, at the crossroads of both Germanic and Roman influences, tells the story of growing from the beginning of our era by the Romans, then revived by the Merovingians and the Carolingians. Before the end of the first millennium, 160 Alsatian communities cultivated the vine and in the Middle Ages, the wines of Alsace were already among the most prestigious in Europe....