OSMOSE 2017 (Domaine Jean Sipp)

DESCRIPTION

OSMOSE is a single-plot cuvée made from 25-year-old vines. Its name defines the reciprocal influence of the father's and son's savoir-faire who made the wine together.

TERROIR

The grapes used for the OSMOSE winemaking come from a parcel located in Ribeauvillé, whose terroir is composed of blue and yellow clays. It bears witness to marine to brackish sedimentary environments, close to the coasts during the Triassic (-250 to -199 Ma) and the Middle Jurassic (-180 to -159 Ma) periods. The soil is composed of marl and limestone rocks with a fine sandy texture.
In addition to the clay present in the soil, there are magnesia (dolomite) and calcium carbonates, iron and manganese oxides as well as quartz sand, which is necessary for a good soil's aeration. The complexity that varies according to the sediment type is the richness of this terroir, ideal for a grape variety as demanding as the Pinot Noir, which can thus take advantage of all the soil's minerals.

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 then completely destemmed and put in vats for a 15-day/3-week maceration.
The must is then pressed and transferred to oak barrels (1/3 of new barrel, 1/3 of one wine barrel, 1/3 of two wines barrel) for an ageing phase of 12 months.
The must is then drawn off without being filtered before bottling in May.

• Acidity: 5,71 g/l
• Residual sugar: 0 g/l