Vineyard Alsace

The vineyard of Alsace extends from North to South on a hundred kilometers with a surface of production of 15000 ha. It profits from a great diversity of grounds, and a sunny and dry climate, one of driest of France. All these conditions allow the favorable development of the vineyard and the production of the white high-class wines of the world.

The vineyard of the Cave de Ribeauvillé: a vineyard of exception
The Cave de Ribeauvillé covers a single vineyard of 265 hectares with 10 Grands Crus and many soils of great value. The whole of the field is managed by a charter of quality which guarantees the manual vintage, a strict control of the outputs, a work of the vineyard in reasoned fight or organic farming. All the grapes are brought to the press in whole bunches and the juice runs out then by simple gravity in the tanks. Thanks to equipment of point, the wines of the Cave def Ribeauvillé respect the purity of type of vine and the identity of each soil. The wines are frank, right, fresh, fruity and express all the richness of the large Alsatian soils.

All our wines result from our own vineyard and bottled “at the property”.

Some figures

The surface of the vineyard exploited is of 260 ha left again in the following way:

9% Sylvaner
13% Pinot Gris
15% Gewurztraminer
8% Pinot Noir 27% Pinot Blanc
2% Muscat
26% Riesling
0,5% Clos du Zahnacker
count among its soils 10 of the 51 Grands Crus in Alsace

Marckrain
Altenberg de Bergheim
Gloeckelberg
Kirchberg de Ribeauvillé
Mandelberg
Osterberg
Rosacker
Schoenenbourg
Schlossberg
Sonnenglanz
and 8 Localities: (geographical entity and climatic good defines and similar, which gives to the wines special characters .et of complexity)

Steinacker locality
Mühlforst locality
Haguenau locality
Pflänzer locality
Steinacker
Rather deep stony ground being heated rather quickly, located on the commune of Ribeauvillé.

Mühlforst
Directed full South between Ribeauvillé and Hunawihr. Very heavy ground containing argilo-marly silts.

Haguenau
On the round of applause of Ribeauvillé and Bergheim. Exposure of West in East. Not very deep grounds very stony marno-limestone.

Schofweg
The ground is marno-limestone with gravels, for the less deep grounds limestone dominates. It belongs to the commune of Bergheim.

Pflänzer
Locality of Southern/South-eastern exposure located on the commune of Rorschwihr. Very deep, calcareous and muddy ground.

Silberberg
On the commune of Rorschwihr, its ground consists of silicified Muschelhalk.

Oberweingarten
Locality of Rorschwihr, it is located on a covered oolitic limestone ground of lenses argilo muddy.

Weingarten
Located at Rorschwihr, the ground calcareous oolothic is colluvionné with a matrix with marnes argillaceous.

5 villages:

Ribeauvillé: ground is with dominant argilo-limestone.
Bergheim: ground is calcaro-sandy marno-.
Rorschwihr: ground is argilo-marno-limestone.
Rodern: ground consists of granite on blue marl.
St Hippolyte: sandy ground.