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4953 DOMAINE DE LA PINTE VdF SAV'OR 2017 750ml
4953 DOMAINE DE LA PINTE VdF SAV'OR 2017 750ml


 


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Seeking for new possibilities of Savagnin

100% biodynamic Savagnin, skin contact for three weeks. Unfiltered, non-fining and no SO2 added. This is a experimental cuvée to seek for new possibilities of Savagnin grape. Laura Seibel brought an idea of skin contact(maceration) to Domaine de la Pinte, through the experience of wine-making in Georgia and Samuel Berger has sophisticated this method. In 2017, Domaine de la Pinte lost 80% of crop, but they decided to continue this cuvée.

Savagnin

Savagnin blanc is mostly grown in the Jura. In 2007, total French plantations of the variety stood at 472 hectares (1,170 acres). It is most famous as the only grape allowed in the Vin Jaune. It is also used for Macvin du Jura, Crémant du Jura, Vin de Paille, a dessert wine made from grapes left to dry on straw.

The history of Savagnin is complicated and not helped by its rather unstable genome. The story starts with the ancient Traminer variety, a green-skinned grape recorded in the Tyrolean village of Tramin from ca. 1000 until the 16th century. (This region now lies in the Italian province of South Tyrol). The famous ampelographer Pierre Galet thought that Traminer was identical to the green-skinned Savagnin blanc in the Jura. More recently it has been suggested that Savagnin blanc acquired slight differences in its leaf shape and geraniol content as it travelled to the other end of the Alps.

Frankisch in Austria, Heida in Switzerland, Formentin in Hungary and Grumin from Bohemia are all very similar to Savagnin blanc and probably represent clones of the Traminer family, if not Traminer itself. The Viognier of the Rhone Valley may be a more distant relative of Savagnin blanc.

At some point, either Traminer or Savagnin blanc mutated into a form with pink-skinned berries, called Red Traminer or Savagnin rose. Galet believed that a musqué ('muscat-like') mutation in the Red Traminer/Savagnin rose then led to the extra-aromatic Gewürztraminer, although in Germany these names are all regarded as synonymous.

Given that the wine made from 'Gewürztraminer' in Germany can be much less aromatic than that made in Alsace, some of the German vines may well be misidentified Savagnin rose. The Baden vineyard of Durbach claims its own type of Red Traminer called Durbacher Clevner (not to be confused with "Klevner", an Austrian synonym for Pinot blanc). The story goes that in 1780 Karl Friedrich, Grand Duke of Baden brought vines from Chiavenna in Italy, halfway between Tramin and the Jura, which was known to the Germans as Cleven.

The Klevener de Heiligenstein or Heiligensteiner Klevener found around Heiligenstein in Alsace may represent an outpost of the Durbach vines.

The varieties Aubin blanc and the Champagne grape Petit Meslier may be the result of a cross between Gouais blanc and Savagnin blanc.






Unique and Local Grape Varieties by Biodynamie.

Domaine de la Pinte is producing soulful wines from local grape varietals such as Poulsard, Savagnin, and Trousseau. The wine has remarkable purity and softness that is attributed to Biodynamie.

Time makes wine.

The essential of wine-making of Domaine de la Pinte is "time". They are willing to spend many years to produce a bottle of wine. Vin Jaune aged in the barrel for 6 years and 3 months(and further maturation in the bottle), moreover they spend 6 years for standard Savagnin. As a result of long time patience, Domaine de la Pinte could produce the special and characteristic wines with high quality.

Jura Wine

Jura wine, is French wine produced in the Jura département. Located between Burgundy and Switzerland, this cool climate wine region produces wines with some similarity to Burgundy and Swiss wine. Jura wines are distinctive and unusual wines, the most famous being vin jaune, which is made by a similar process to Sherry, developing under a flor-like strain of yeast. This is made from the local Savagnin grape variety. Other grape varieties include Poulsard, Trousseau, and Chardonnay. Other wine styles found in Jura includes a vin de paille made from Chardonnay, Poulsard and Savagnin, a sparkling Crémant du Jura made from slightly unripe Chardonnay grapes, and a vin de liqueur known as Macvin du Jura made by adding marc to halt fermentation.

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