Domaine Marcel Deiss Le Jeu des Verts
Gruenspiel 'Le Jeu de Vert' 1er Cru '23
Grapes: Mostly riesling with Pinot Noir, Pinot Blanc, and Gewurztraminer (bone dry)
No Score yet BUT the 2022 received a GREAT writeup for comparison:
96 Wine Advocate
The 2022 "Le jeu des verts" blends Riesling, Blanc de Pinot Noir, Pinot Gris and Gewurztraminer already in the field on the clay marl soils of the Gruenspiel vineyard but also on the mash that was fermented for four of five weeks in stainless steel before the wine was aged in a 35-hectoliter foudre until the bottling in September 2023. Since Mathieu ferments the wine on the skins, particularly in warm years, it comes with a modified label and only the French-translated name of the original cru. The salmon-orange colored wine opens with a clear, very elegant and aromatic nose of redcurrant and more red berries. The wine is dry, very intense and powerful on the palate, nicely bitter (almost like a Campari) but also dense, highly complex and very long. This is an orange wine with red-wine character and fine tannins. Impressive. Bottled in September 2023, tasted at the domaine in April 2024.
A dry white made from mostly Riesling, Pinot, Gewurztraminer, this is one of the most gastronomic and completely dry wines Deiss makes.
This Bergheim terroir forms an amphitheatre that opens to the South, overlooking the great wines of Ribeauvillé, and is one of the best in the area. Its poetical name refers to the word for draughtboard and expresses the heterogeneous nature of the topsoil, which is made up of torrent deposits of sandstone, granite and sometimes gneiss, spread over a deep base of Keuper lake marl. These dominant characteristics and companion planting (Riesling, Pinot, Gewurztraminer) give the wine phenomenal length, a slightly tannic structure and power that is very lightly rounded by the hot minerality that is so specific to rolled gravel – an iron hand in a velvet glove.
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Description
Gruenspiel 'Le Jeu de Vert' 1er Cru '23
Grapes: Mostly riesling with Pinot Noir, Pinot Blanc, and Gewurztraminer (bone dry)
No Score yet BUT the 2022 received a GREAT writeup for comparison:
96 Wine Advocate
The 2022 "Le jeu des verts" blends Riesling, Blanc de Pinot Noir, Pinot Gris and Gewurztraminer already in the field on the clay marl soils of the Gruenspiel vineyard but also on the mash that was fermented for four of five weeks in stainless steel before the wine was aged in a 35-hectoliter foudre until the bottling in September 2023. Since Mathieu ferments the wine on the skins, particularly in warm years, it comes with a modified label and only the French-translated name of the original cru. The salmon-orange colored wine opens with a clear, very elegant and aromatic nose of redcurrant and more red berries. The wine is dry, very intense and powerful on the palate, nicely bitter (almost like a Campari) but also dense, highly complex and very long. This is an orange wine with red-wine character and fine tannins. Impressive. Bottled in September 2023, tasted at the domaine in April 2024.
A dry white made from mostly Riesling, Pinot, Gewurztraminer, this is one of the most gastronomic and completely dry wines Deiss makes.
This Bergheim terroir forms an amphitheatre that opens to the South, overlooking the great wines of Ribeauvillé, and is one of the best in the area. Its poetical name refers to the word for draughtboard and expresses the heterogeneous nature of the topsoil, which is made up of torrent deposits of sandstone, granite and sometimes gneiss, spread over a deep base of Keuper lake marl. These dominant characteristics and companion planting (Riesling, Pinot, Gewurztraminer) give the wine phenomenal length, a slightly tannic structure and power that is very lightly rounded by the hot minerality that is so specific to rolled gravel – an iron hand in a velvet glove.
