Bottle of Domaine Mittnacht Frères Solar Vin de France Blanc 2022 Biodynamic
France · Alsace · Vin de France

Solar 2022

Domaine Mittnacht Frères

Gewurztraminer on its skins: all the perfume, none of the sweetness.

Open it when…

Friends Long dinner Date night

Tastes like

rose petal · orange peel · lychee · black tea

Feels like

dry, grippy, perfumed

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GrapesGewurztraminer
Serve12-14
Decant30m
DrinkNow-2028

Emeric's note

A dinner where you want people to ask "what is this?"

Taste profile

The wine's soundboard.

Tall bars, big wine. Low bars, easy wine.

The story

Behind the bottle

The Mittnacht family has farmed in Hunawihr, one of the prettiest villages on the Alsace wine road, since 1963. They were among the first in Alsace to go biodynamic, and today there are sheep grazing between the rows.

Solar is Gewurztraminer made like a red: the grapes sit on their skins, which brings colour, a little grip and a lot of perfume, but no sugar at all.

This is the bottle that converts people to orange wine. Serve it blind: few people guess Gewurztraminer.

— Emeric

Where it comes from

Alsace map

The place

Alsace

Sheltered in the rain-shadow of the Vosges, Alsace is dry, sunny and planted to a mosaic of thirteen soil types. Its wines are named by grape — Riesling, Gewurztraminer, Pinot Gris, Muscat — and run from bone-dry to nobly sweet. One of France's densest concentrations of organic and biodynamic estates. ~15,500 ha.

Climate
Semi-continental, very dry (Vosges rain-shadow), sunny
Altitude
200–400 m
Classification
AOCs
SoilsGraniteLimestoneSchistSandstoneVolcanicMarl
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Best season to open it

Autumn Curry night, or Munster with cumin.
Summer Slightly cool, on the terrace.

SpringWinter

Have it with

🍽️ Spicy curry
Munster cheese
Charcuterie

Press play

Psychedelic soullava lamp optional.
  1. 01 Khruangbin – Evan Finds the Third Room— warm and hypnotic
  2. 02 Erykah Badu – On & On— smooth and spicy
  3. 03 Tame Impala – The Less I Know the Better— playful
Nerd mode 🔬 Soils, grapes, cellar, serving — for the truly curious

…I warned you. 😄

Terroir & craft

◆SoilsGranite, Limestone, Schist, Sandstone, Volcanic, Marl
◆Altitude200–400 m
◆GrapesGewurztraminer
◆Blend100% Gewurztraminer, skin contact
◆CellarGewurztraminer macerated on the skins
◆CellarNatural fermentation
◆CellarBottled dry
🌿CertificationsBiodynamic

Serving

◆Serve at12-14
◆GlassBourgogne
◆Decant30m
◆DrinkNow-2028
Domaine Mittnacht Frères cellar

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