The Story
The Herrenweg is a very precocious vineyard. It enjoys a warm climate, enhanced by the well drained gravely valley floor soil and the absence of shadows from the Vosges mountains. This is definitely an advantage in vintages when ripeness is difficult, but can sometimes cause excessive ripeness and acidity loss if the harvest is too much delayed and late. For this reason, we only kept our oldest vines to produce this wine, without actually look...