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Domaine Albert Boxler

2020 Crémant d’Alsace AOC Brut

The Crémant de Alsace from Domaine Albert Boxler is a gorgeously constructed insight into this ever-more important category for the region. The nose is fruit forward with a waterfall minerality and a fabric softener like meadow freshness supporting notes of green apple, lemon and lime hard rock candies, and freshly picked raspberry. On the palate the resounding feature is the sublime balance they've achieved here. Fresh berry fruit leads to a more savoury finish of strawberry and Chinese milk bread rolls, the latter being where the impressive, minute-long finish resolves. Lovely. Certainly the density to age further. This is a joyful and easy-to-love wine with serious length and very likeable fruit, fashioned in an honest and unassuming mode that seeks to please. You would be forgiven for calling it Champagne in a blind tasting, but the lemon rock candy and high-toned fruit might clue you into its Alsatian origins.
France
White
Sparkling
Organic
Vegan
Steel ageing

Region:  Niedermorschwihr, Alsace

Appellation:  Crémant d'Alsace AOC

Varietal/Blend:  Pinot Blanc & Auxerrois w 20% Pinot Noir

ABV:  13.0%

Vineyard & Vine Age: Organic estate vineyards (certified for over twenty years). Precision-farmed entirely by hand. Vines as old as eighty years, only replanted (with selection massale) on an individual basis as needed. Boxler always harvests when the fruit reaches its own natural maturity (resisting the trend to pick earlier to guarantee fully dry ferments) and may therefore contain some degree of residual sugar in the final wine, depending on the vintage. No fertilizing, ever.

The Crémant's fruit hails from estate vineyards outside the surrounding the domaine's home village of Niedermorschwihr, located at over 300m above sea level.

Cellar: Hand sorted fruit goes into one of three pneumatic presses for an obsessively careful pressing that can last from four to twelve hours, fractioning out various pressures to blend back in or omit from each wine according to its needs. The juice is then patiently cold-settled before being racked (gravity-fed) into stainless steel for its initial ferment before blending and bottling for the second fermentation sur lattes in the methode champenois. The second fermentation and rest period lasts at least 24-30 months at which time the wine is riddled by hand, disgorged, and receives a dosage of 3g or less (though it is always labelled simply as Brut).

CSPC:  128366

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