2024 Domaine Schoffit Pinot Noir Vendange Entiere Vieilles Vignes, Alsace, France Billecart-Salmon and tree bark

and tree bark

The wine was fermented with native yeasts in 2-5 year old Burgundy barrels

dry-farmed Cabernet Sauvignon vines

exposition (ridge-top) and soil composition (deep volcanic loam) come together here in a nearly perfect combination

It offers a superb even if still rather ripe and reduced nose made of fine herbal elements

2024 Domaine Schoffit Pinot Noir Vendange Entiere Vieilles Vignes, Alsace, France Billecart-Salmon and tree barkBernard Schoffit is a brilliant pioneer in Alsaces greatest Grand Cru, Rangen de Thann. The domaine started by Bernards father, Robert at 10 hectares, is situated near Colmar. 25 years ago, Bernard, then still very young, embarked on an ambitious program of buying land in Rangen, around the Clos St. Theobold. Totaling nearly 6. 5 hectares, a good part of it had been abandoned because it was too steep to work. Through sheer determination and ambition,