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Christian Binner

Christian Binner Saveurs Macérés 2024

Name: Christian Binner Saveurs Macérés 2024
Brand: Christian Binner
SKU: binner-saveur-2003
Price: 28.00 USD
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Style: Dry, medium-bodied skin-contact white; the multi-variety blend across several Alsatian grapes — from aromatic Muscat and Sylvaner to the more structural Auxerrois and Chasselas — gives the wine a range of texture and aromatic depth; the maceration adds gentle grip without heaviness; fresh and broadly approachable
Grapes & terroir: Muscat, Riesling, Sylvaner, Auxerrois, Chasselas, and Pinot Blanc; granite hillsides around Ammerschwihr farmed organically and biodynamically; permaculture, phytotherapy, and regenerative agricultural practices applied across the estate's 11 hectares; Demeter certified since 2020
Winemaking: Hand-harvested and manually sorted; whole-bunch partial maceration with gentle foot punchdowns; indigenous yeast fermentation; aged on fine lees in concrete vats inside the estate's anthroposophical bioclimatic cellar; bottled unfined, unfiltered, no added sulfur
Serving temperature & decanting: Serve at 52–57°F; a short 10–15 minute decant opens up the aromatics; also works slightly chilled as an aperitivo
Pairing: Choucroute garnie (Alsatian braised sauerkraut with charcuterie)
Similar to: Skin-contact Friulano from Friuli, Rkatsiteli from Kakheti, orange Grenache Blanc from Roussillon

Christian Binner Saveurs Macérés 2024 is a skin-contact white wine made from a multi-variety blend including Muscat, Riesling, Sylvaner, Auxerrois, Chasselas, and Pinot Blanc, grown organically and biodynamically on the granite hillsides of Ammerschwihr in Alsace. Produced by Christian Binner, the grapes are hand-harvested, manually sorted, and undergo whole-bunch partial maceration with foot punchdowns before fermentation with indigenous yeasts. Christian Binner Saveurs Macérés 2024 is aged on fine lees in the estate's bioclimatic cellar, then bottled unfined, unfiltered, and with no added sulfur. Alsace, France.

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Producer profile

Christian Binner

Domaine Christian Binner is rooted in Ammerschwihr in the Haut-Rhin, where the Binner family has been farming since 1770. Initially a polyculture operation, the estate transitioned to wine growing in earnest after World War II. Christian's father Joseph resisted the post-war drift toward mechanisation and synthetic inputs, continuing to farm with manure and natural treatments even before organic certification existed. This preserved vines planted in the 1930s that have never been exposed to chemical treatments.

Christian Binner took over the estate in 1999 and immediately deepened the organic commitment, working with Pierre Masson — a leading figure in applying Rudolf Steiner's biodynamic approach to viticulture — and drawing inspiration from Marcel Lapierre, the Beaujolais natural wine pioneer who had been a family friend and had helped Joseph Binner begin making wine without added sulfur in the 1990s. Official organic certification followed in 2004, and Demeter biodynamic certification in 2020. The estate has made no sulfur additions since 2013. Vineyard work is carried out by hand and with horses to avoid soil compaction.

The estate's bioclimatic cellar, completed in the 2010s after more than five years of planning, is built entirely from local materials — Vosges pink sandstone, oak beams, fir — following anthroposophical principles with curved forms, no right angles, and every stone oriented as it was found in the quarry. The structure maintains naturally stable temperatures year-round, allowing wines to ferment and age without mechanical intervention.

The estate now spans approximately 11 hectares, with plots on the Kaefferkopf, Wineck-Schlossberg, and Schlossberg Grands Crus. In 2015, Christian launched Les Vins Pirouettes, a collaborative label that helps neighbouring Alsatian organic and biodynamic growers produce and market zero-sulfur wines from their own cellars.

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Wine region

Alsace, France

Alsace stretches along the eastern edge of France between the Vosges Mountains and the Rhine River, sharing a border with Germany to the east and Switzerland to the south. It is one of France's driest wine regions, sheltered from Atlantic rain by the Vosges to the west, giving it a semi-continental climate with warm, sunny summers and cold, clear winters. This low rainfall and high sunshine duration create naturally healthy vines and low disease pressure — conditions that make Alsace particularly well suited to organic and biodynamic viticulture.

The region's geology is exceptionally varied. Alongside Alsace's most famous granite soils — found around Ammerschwihr, Kaysersberg, and Turckheim — the appellation also encompasses limestone, sandstone, gneiss, marl, clay, and loess formations. Granite hillsides typically produce wines with vertical freshness and pronounced mineral character, while limestone and clay sites tend to give more body and aromatic richness. Around Ammerschwihr, where Domaine Binner farms, granite dominates the steeper hillside parcels.

Alsace is unusual in French wine in labelling wines primarily by grape variety. The region's seven principal white varieties are Riesling, Gewurztraminer, Pinot Gris, Pinot Blanc, Muscat, Sylvaner, and Auxerrois, with Pinot Noir the sole permitted red. For the Saveurs Macérés blend, the multi-variety approach draws on grapes whose aromatic profiles complement each other across a single maceration, allowing the skin contact to unify diverse aromatic registers into a coherent wine.

Alsace is home to 51 Grand Cru designated vineyards, covering some of the region's most distinctive sites. Approximately 25% of Alsatian vineyard area was certified organic or biodynamic by the late 2010s, a proportion well above the French national average and a figure that has continued to grow since.

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