CUVÉE CAROLE 2017 (Domaine Jean Sipp)

DESCRIPTION

The cuvée CAROLE, made from old Gewüztraminer vines, is dedicated to the the Sipp family's daughter who manages the estate's guest rooms, while her brother, Jean-Guillaume, has been in charge of the winegrowing and winemaking tasks since 2013.

TERROIR

The terroir is made up of very old soils dating from the Middle and Upper Triassic (-238 to -227 million years ago). During this geological period, which lasted over a hundred million years, many sediment layers were deposited over time. Erosion and tectonic movements have allowed them to surface here and there, in different places.

The oldest layer is made up of sandstone and conglomerates, it is a estuarine or deltaic type sedimentation. But the sedimentary layers which follow it indicates a change of environment which becomes marine : in the Middle Triassic, the sea invades the region and feeds a calcareous-marly sedimentation until the Upper Triassic ; then alternate dolomitic marl, sandstone marl, then encrinal limestone and finally gray marl layers. These alternations of marly and limestone layers indicate a bathymetric variation in the waters that were sometimes deep and calm, sometimes shallow and agitated.

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 a 24-hour static settling, the must is transferred to 50 hl tuns placed under temperature control for 6 weeks during which the alcoholic and malolactic fermentations take place.

Once the fermentations are over, the must is drawn off and matures on its fine lees for 6 months. At the end of the ageing phase, the estate carries out an Kieselguhr filtration before bottling which takes place in May.

• Residual sugar: 71,15 g/l
• Acidity: 3,12g/l