Alsace Producer Knowledge

Question 1

When was the inaugural vintage of Clos St Urbain?

Answer 1

1978

Question 2

What was the inaugural vintage of Trimbach’s Schlossberg Grand Cru?

Answer 2

2014

Question 3

What are the top two Riesling bottlings that Trimbach produces?

Answer 3

Clos Ste Hune

Cuvée Frédéric Emile

Question 4

Cuvée Frédéric Emile is produced from fruit sourced from what two Grand Cru vineyards?

Answer 4

Geisberg and Osterberg

Question 5

What two Grand Cru does Trimbach produce that is labeled by its Grand Cru?

Answer 5

Geisberg

Schlossberg

Question 6

Who makes Clos Rebberg? What is the grape used in the Grand Cru bottling from here?

Answer 6

Marc Kreydenweiss

Pinot Gris

Question 7

Who makes Clos de la Faille? What is the grape? Village? Extension of what Grand Cru vineyard?

Answer 7

Domaine Albert Mann
Pinot Noir
Wintzenheim
Hengst

Question 8

What does “Weinbach” mean?

Answer 8

The Stream of Wine

Question 9

Clos des Capucins is located near what Grand Cru vineyard? It is a monopole of what producer?

Answer 9

Schlossberg

Domaine Weinbach

Question 10

What does the name Clos Rebargarten mean?

Answer 10

“Garden of the Vines”

Question 11

Clos Rebgarten is a monopole of what producer? What grape is this vineyard planted exclusively to? What sub variety?

What Grand Cru vineyard is it closest to? What town is it located within?

Answer 11

Marc Kreydenweiss

Muscat (Muscat Ottonel)

Moenchberg in the town of Andlau

Question 12

Who produces the Clos Jebsal? What three Grand Cru vineyards surround it? In what village is Clos Jebsal located? What is the grape of this vineyard? What style of wine is the vineyard famous for?

Answer 12

Domaine Zind Humbrecht

Florimont to the NE
Sommerberg to the NW
Brand to the SW

Turkheim

Pinot Gris

Late Harvest

Question 13

What Grand Cru vineyard is Clos Hauserer next to? What grape is the Clos devoted to exclusively?

Answer 13

Hengst

Riesling

Question 14

Clou Hauserer is a monocle produced by who? In what town is it located in? Near what two other towns?

Answer 14

Zind-Humbrecht

Wintzenheim near Turkheim and Colmar

Question 15

Clos WIndsbuhl is produced by who? Between what two Grands Crus is it located? Above what village is it located? What grapes are bottled varietally using this Clos’s name on the bottle? What styles of wine is this vineyard known for?

Answer 15

Zind-Humbrecht

Located between Rosacker and Schoenenbourg

Hunawihr

Riesling, Gewurtztraminer, and Pinot Gris

Dry whites and late harvest wines

Question 16

Clos St. Landelin is particularly known for what style of wines? What river is located in close proximity? What hill is it located on within what Grand Cru vineyard?

Answer 16

VT and SGN

Ohmbach River

Strangenberg Hill within Vourbourg Grand Cru

Question 17

Who are the three founding fathers of Crémant d’Alsace?

Answer 17

Lucien Albrecht

Question 18

What are Weinbach’s three top late harvest wines? Which is late harvest, but not necessarily botrytized? Which is picked in one harvest, not in tries? Which is the full on botrytis wine only made in exceptional vintages?

Answer 18

Cuvée Colette (late harvest)

Cuvée Sainte Catherine “L’Inédit” (picked at once, often a mix of bot and non bot fruit)

Quintessences de Grains Nobles (full on bot)

Question 19

Weinbach Cuvée Sainte Catherine is made from what grape and from what grand Cru?

Answer 19

Riesling

Schlossberg

Question 20

Weinbach’s Iconic “Quintessence de Grains Nobles” is produced from three different grapes in three different sites. What are the three sites and what are their corresponding grapes?

Answer 20

Mambourg Grand Cru (Gewurztraminer)

Schlossberg Grand Cru (Riesling)

Altenbourg (Pinot Gris)

Question 21

Weinbach’s Cuvée Laurence is made with three different grapes (separate bottlings). What three different grapes is it made with? Which is bottled as “Vin d’Alsace Altenbourg”?

Answer 21

Riesling
Pinot Gris (Altenbourg)
Gewurztraminer

Question 22

Cuvée Theo by Weinbach is bottled as what two grapes?

Answer 22

Gewurztraminer

Riesling

Question 23

Albert Boxler produces wines from which two grands crus?

Answer 23

Sommerberg

Brand

Question 24

Albert Boxler produces a majority of his late harvest wines from which Grand Cru from what two grapes? In what vineyard is his VT Gewurz produced?

Answer 24

Sommerberg

Pinot Gris and Riesling

VT Gewürz produced in Brand

Question 25

Where is Boxler's Pinot Noir "S" produced?

Answer 25

Sommerberg Grand Cru

Question 26

What three unofficial categories did Domaine Ostertag produce for his wines? Briefly describe each

Answer 26

Vins de Fruit (wines that express fruit typicity) Vins de Pierre (wines that express specific terroir) Vins de Temps (wines affected by weather like late harvest)

Question 27

Who makes Clos Mathis?

Answer 27

Domaine Ostertag

Question 28

What Grand Cru does Domaine Ostertag produce? What grapes? Which is also produced VT?

Answer 28

Muenchberg Pinot Gris and Riesling Riesling is also produced VT

Question 29

Fronholz, Zellberg, Heissenberg, Vignoble d'E are all wines produced by who?

Answer 29

Domaine Ostertag

Question 30

Who makes A360P? What's the story behind this?

Answer 30

Domaine Ostertag Refers to the vineyard grid reference, used because when he first created this wine in 1983, the AOP denied him the right to label his Pinot Gris Grand Cru to considerable oak influence

Question 31

In Ostertag's Gewurtztraminer and Riesling "Vignolbe d'E" and Pinot Noir "Rouge 'E'" bottlings what does the "E" stand for?

Answer 31

Epfig Fruit for these wines are sourced form various plots around Epfig

Question 32

Who is responsible for the 2005 INAO reform that made Grand Cru wine production from a single varietal optional and thus opened the doors for blending in Altenberg?

Answer 32

Marcel Deiss

Question 33

Marcel Deiss's Grand Cru Mambourg bottling is a blend of what grapes?

Answer 33

Pinot Gris Pinot Blanc Pinot Noir

Question 34

What three Grand Cru bottlings does Marcel Deiss produce that are all field blends?

Answer 34

Mambourg Altenberg de Bergheim Schoenenbourg

Question 35

Who played a pioneering role in the development of Alsace's late harvest designations in 1984?

Answer 35

Hugel

Question 36

Hugel produces wines from which two grand crus?

Answer 36

Sporen | Schoenenbourg

Question 37

What does the Hugel family call "Grand Crus"?

Answer 37

Grossi Laüe

Question 38

What is the name of Hugel's most prized single vineyard Riesling? From what grand cru vineyard is it from?

Answer 38

Schoelhammer Heart of the Schoenenbourg vineyard

Question 39

Hugel's Riesling Grossi Laüe is produced from fruit in what Grand Cru?

Answer 39

Schoenenbourg

Question 40

From what vintage forward will Hugel's Jubilee bottles be called Grossi Laüe?

Answer 40

2010

Question 41

Hugel's Gewurtztraminer and Pinot Gris Grossi Laüe are produced from what grand cru?

Answer 41

Sporen

Question 42

What was the first vintage of "Hommage a Jean Hugel"? What style of wine is this?

Answer 42

1997 More concentrated but not like VT