Mambourg Grand Cru 2021 - Marcel Deiss

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Alsace - Grand Cru - Marcel Deiss

A great early terroir

Dominating Sigolsheim, the Mambourg is the earliest slope of the vineyard. Stretching over nearly 1.3 km and covering 61.85 ha, facing due south on the hillside, the Mambourg dominates Sigolsheim. As early as 783, history reveals that the wines of Sigoltesberg (today's Mambourg) were renowned for their elegance, harmony and capacity for long cellaring. Numerous convents and lords owned it and gave it its letters of nobility.

Its particular geology, derived from the Oligocene limestones of the Quaternary period, gives the Mambourg a very rare characteristic, an ever-present tannic power, a smooth roundness of shape. The wines, always perfectly dry, are of course sometimes exaggeratedly powerful and extremely complex.

Mental Landscape": deep, clear wine without being luminous. Charged colours: brown, havana, milk chocolate. Evolves towards yellows, more fruit.

Mouthfeel: Extremely concentrated wine, causing an impressive salivation, horizontal, tingling, very tanned, exalted by carbon dioxide. Then appears the acidity; major, powerful, very broad and tartaric, underlined by a chiselled, compact tannin. Very important vinosity: the attack is consistent, the vivacity important, the energy without limit, rasterized, built like a checkerboard.

Port or energy: A great table wine, tight, sovereign, calling great tables and noble poultry; fearing no one and especially not a Montrachet! An example of what should be the level of the Alsatian Grands Crus.

The wine 

Grapes varieties : Complex vineyard composed of the whole Pinot family: grey, butter, white and black.

Type : Great white wine for gastronomy: dry, spherical and full-bodied.

Guard : In service now and a potential 15 to 20 years.

Terroir : Rolled Oligocene limestone galés.

Service : Temperature between 10 and 12 degrees. Serve in a Grand Cru glass 

Idea of agreement : Fabulous agreements are possible with, among others, beautiful farm poultry (capon, chicken) in cream sauce, accompanied by mushrooms, sweetbreads and cheeses such as old comté cheese.