RIESLING GRAND CRU KIRCHBERG 2017 (Domaine Jean Sipp)

This wine comes from a 2.5 hectare plot located in the place called Kirchberg of Ribeauvillé, classified as a Grand Cru. Exposed south/southwest, on a steep slope, the Riesling vines benefit from a maximum sunshine, ensuring perfect ripening of the grapes.

TERROIR

The Kirchberg of Ribeauvillé place occupies a faulted compartment of the Middle and Upper Triassic (238 to 227 million years ago), where the Voltzia sandstone, the dolomitic sandstone and marl of the Lower Muschelkalk (Middle Triassic) and the sandstone marl of the Middle Muschelkalk follow one another from bottom to top.
These different sedimentary layers were deposited in deep and calm waters when the sea invaded the region in the Middle and Upper Triassic.

This marl-limestone-sandstone soil, stony, sandy and clayey, is perfectly

WINEGROWING & WINEMAKING

The vines are cultivated in accordance with the organic viticulture specifications. The Jean Sipp estate has also started its conversion in 2018 in order to obtain official organic certification.

The harvest is manual. The grapes are pressed by slow pressing (8 hours). After 24-hour static settling, the must is decanted into temperature-controlled tunes for 6 weeks for the fermentations.

Once the fermentations are over, the must is drawn off and matures on its fine lees for 8 to 10 months. At the end of the ageing phase, the estate carries out an Kieselguhr filtration before bottling which takes place in May.

• Residual sugar: 3,8 g/l
• Acidity: 6,3 g/l