Albert Mann Les Saintes Claires 2013

Producer: Albert Mann

Pinot Noir Les Saintes Claires

️ Wettolsheim, Alsace

Domaine Albert Mann

Pinot Noir

2013

️  13.5%

Red wine

The grapes come from a small paradise of one hectare on pebbly and clayey soil rich in iron and quartz, manual harvest, spontaneous fermentation with native yeasts and maceration for two weeks, then refinement in first class French oak passage for 17 months, finally bottle

Ripe red fruits such as blackberry, currant and raspberry, then rose petals and violet, undergrowth and wet earth, truffle and leather and finally spices, cinnamon and black pepper, intense minerality

Fresh and dynamic, elegant and with great flavour, the structure is balanced and the tannins silky, a vibrant finish that dances on the tongue

Serving temperature 16°-18°

Fillet

A true treasure

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Wettolsheim, Alsace

Domaine Albert Mann is located in Wettolsheim, a small village located in the heart of Alsace, 2 km west of Colmar.

Domaine Albert Mann is the result of the work of two great families of winemakers. The Manns, winemakers since the beginning of the 17th century and the Barthelmés, the current owners, since 1654.

Today the two brothers, Maurice and Jacky Barthelmé, together with their wives, Marie-Claire and Marie-Thérèse, manage the family estate.
The vineyards cover an area of ​​23 hectares and are spread over 8 municipalities, divided into more than one hundred small parcels.

The company owns 5 Grands Crus, 2 Lieu-dits and 1 Monopole ‘Clos de la Faille’.

The variety of landscapes in Alsace where mountains, hills and plains alternate are the consequence of a great diversity of rocks that make up the subsoil. All this contributes to the complexity of the wines. The silica gives liveliness, the clay absorbs the minerals brings power, the limestone brings opulence and the mulleux, the marl, colder soils, preserve the acidity.

The company philosophy is to make a wine nourished by the elements of the soil and not by fertilizers. The will of the Domaine is to produce a wine in harmony with nature by practicing agriculture whose purpose is not to exploit, but to strengthen the vitality of the soil.

‘Wine is the memory of the grapes, it is the only way to communicate the taste of the earth’. To best express the originality of the place, replanting is practiced with mass selection (selection of old plants in order to maintain biodiversity), natural grassing, one row every two. The other row is worked in order to encourage deep rooting of the plants and some terraced plots are worked with horses. Natural composts are ‘homemade’ and are made to stimulate the bacterial microflora of the soil which is essential for the formation of humus and the assimilation of subsoil minerals.

The harvest is carried out manually, when the skins and seeds reach maturity, in order to respect the grapes which arrive whole in the pneumatic presses.

A slow extraction allows you to have clear and healthy musts that do not require any addition of oenological products with the exception of sulphur, which is used in minimal doses.

After fermentation lasting several months, the wines remain in contact with their yeasts which nourish them and at the same time stabilize them naturally. The wines are bottled when they are considered ready and always on a waning moon in order to preserve the fruit. The wines have been certified organic since 2000, but the company has been running biodynamically since 1997.

THE GRANDS CRUS AND LIEUX DITS VINEYARDS OF THE DOMAINE ARE DIVIDED AS FOLLOWS:
GRAND CRUS
SCHLOSSBERG (Kientzheim): granitic soil, Riesling
FURSTENTUM (Kientzheim): calcareous soil, Riesling, Pinot grigio, Gewurztraminer
STEINGRUBLER (Wettolsheim): marly-limestone-sandstone soil, Gewurztraminer
HENGST (Wintzenheim): marly-limestone-sandstone soil, Pinot grigio, Pinot noir
PFERSIGBERG (Eguisheim): limestone-sandstone soil, Pinot grigio, Pinot noir
LIEUX DITS
ALTENBOURG (Kientzheim), calcareous soil: Gewurztraminer, Riesling, Pinot Grigio, Muscat
ROSENBERG (Wettolsheim), clayey clay soil with a calcareous tendency: Riesling, Pinot grigio,
Gewurztraminer
CLOS DE LA FAILLE (Wintzenheim). Monopole of the estate. Soil: The upper part contains pebbles of pink Buntsandstein Vosges sandstone and calcareous sandstone. In the middle, it contains limestone pebbles of Muschelkalk, gray with a very fine grain and Jurassic, yellow. At the bottom, there is a mixture of sandstone pebbles
Vosges and white and pink quartz, all planted with Pinot Noir