Domaine Weinbach

Just outside Kaysersberg on the road to Kientzheim, and sitting at the foot of the majestic Schlossberg, is the Clos des Capucins, a walled vineyard of C16 monastic origin. Through this vineyard the ‘wine stream’ or weinbach runs, and the Weinbach domain, owned by the Faller family since 1898, is based in the large grange in the middle of the Clos.

Its 38 ha of biodynamically cultivated vineyards, divided up into 200 different parcels, are all found within a two-mile radius of the grange, and include four Grands Crus (Schlossberg as well as Mambourg, Furstentum and Marckrain) as well as the lieu-dit of Altenbourg, considered by many as being of Grand Cru equivalent.

Matriarch Catherine Faller runs the domain with her two sons, Eddy and Théo Faller. The range is divided into straightforward varietal wines and then an upper tier of wines labelled by vineyard origin or under special Cuvée names for multi-site or sub-site selections; Weinbach has, too, one of the finest ranges of sweet wines in the region, though Eddy Faller says that climate change is making these increasingly hard to produce (once every three or four vintages at present, and in future perhaps only once every decade).

The family characterises its wines as “respectful and epicurean”. In the past, they were often sumptuous and lushly rich, but under the present generation the style is moving towards a new density and purity. Experiments, too, are underway – with orange wines, for example, as well as with new blends and with ‘Vin de France’ plantings of Syrah and Grenache.

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