Marc Kreydenweiss Kritt Pinot Blanc 2018

Price: $27.00
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Tasting notes

Kritt delivers a Pinot Blanc that stands apart from most Alsatian versions: ferruginous quartz soils give the wine a firm, saline minerality that cuts through the ripe white peach and mirabelle fruit. Lees aging in old oak foudres adds texture without obscuring that stony, precise character.

BodyFruitTanninAcidity
White PeachWhite FlowersSalineAlmond
Dry/Sweet:Dry
Wine Type:White Wine
Wine Style:Medium Body
Grapes:Pinot Blanc
Farming:Organic and Biodynamic
Vintage:2018
Alcohol:13%
Country:France
Region:Alsace
Appellation:Alsace AOC
Bottle Size:750ml
Sugar Level:Zero Added Sugar
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Producer profile

Marc Kreydenweiss

The Kreydenweiss family has been growing grapes in Andlau since at least the 1750s. In 1945 Denise Gresser married René Kreydenweiss and the couple took over the established Gresser estate. Their son Marc succeeded them in 1971 and set out to make terroir-specific wines from the parcels around Andlau. Marc began converting to biodynamic viticulture in 1989, one of the first vignerons in Alsace to do so. In 1999 the family established a second domaine in the Costières de Nîmes in the Languedoc. Antoine Kreydenweiss, Marc's son, took over management of the Alsace estate in 2007 at age 26 and continues to run it today.

The Alsace estate covers 13.5 hectares across 25 parcels within a 10-kilometer radius of Andlau, including holdings in the communes of Eichhoffen, Mittelbergheim, and Barr. The estate is certified organic through Ecocert and biodynamic through Biodyvin. Eighty percent of the vineyards are on hillsides or slopes with predominantly south or south-east exposure. Vineyard work includes severe pruning to control yields, manual debudding, and hand harvesting with two rounds of sorting. Antoine uses a plow horse named Sam for inter-row tillage. Since 2016, the estate has also sourced grapes from a small number of local growers farming organically or biodynamically.

In the cellar, grapes are whole-bunch pressed slowly, then fermented spontaneously with native yeasts. Wines are aged on their lees in old Alsatian oak foudres — sometimes for up to three years depending on the cuvée — and bottled with minimal sulfur additions. The Kritt Pinot Blanc spends approximately 15 months on lees before bottling. No fining or heavy filtration is used. Every year since 1984, the domaine has commissioned a different artist to design the vintage labels.

Wine region

Alsace, France

Alsace runs roughly 110 miles north to south along France's northeastern border with Germany, with vineyards planted on the eastern slopes of the Vosges Mountains at altitudes between 175 and 420 meters. The Vosges create a pronounced rain shadow, making Alsace one of the driest wine regions in France — Colmar receives around 500 to 600 millimeters of rainfall per year. The resulting climate is semi-continental: warm, dry summers followed by long autumns that allow gradual ripening and the retention of bright acidity.

Alsace produces wine under three AOCs: Alsace AOC for still varietal wines, Alsace Grand Cru AOC for wines from 51 classified sites, and Crémant d'Alsace for traditional-method sparkling wine. The region's geology is unusually diverse, with soils ranging from granite, schist, and black slate to limestone, marl, sandstone, and clay. Andlau, in the northern Bas-Rhin, sits on an especially complex mosaic of terroirs — within a short distance of the village you encounter black slate, granite, red sandstone, and the ferruginous clay-quartz soils of Kritt. The four Andlau Grand Crus are Kastelberg, Wiebelsberg, Moenchberg, and Kirchberg de Barr. The key white varieties are Riesling, Gewurztraminer, Pinot Gris, Pinot Blanc, and Muscat.

Frequently asked question

We will process and ship your order in 2-3 business days, you will receive a shipping confirmation email with tracking as soon as the Carrier scans the shipping label.

Ground shipping time depends on location, here's a breakdown:

West Coast: 1-2 business days
Midwest: 3-4 business days
East Coast: 5 business days

Process time is not shipping time. Shipping time starts from the days successive to the day of shipping, after the order has been processed.

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Carrier will try to delivery a package up to three times before returning the package to us.

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If you miss a delivery and a package gets returned to us we have two options:

1) Reship the package right away: due to the very high cost of shipping and returns, we must charge a re-shipping fee to be determined based on package size and shipping destination.

2) Consolidate the returned package with your next order: this option is free of charge and it's the most popular option.

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