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Address
210 EAST VERMILION STREET LAFAYETTE, LA 70501
Hours
Tues-Thurs
1pm-7pm
Friday & Saturday
1pm-8pm
Closed Sunday & Monday
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This crémant is a blend of juices from the 2019 and 2020 harvests, to which juices from 2021 have been added in order to cause foam to form in the bottle. The nose, slightly brioche, evokes pome fruits. The palate is soft, very fluid, without sweetness or bitterness: a wine of pleasure, with a fine and delicate bubble. This crémant can be served as an aperitif and accompany a whole meal. It goes well, among other things, with oysters, tapas, fish, poultry or desserts.
Their family has been established in Mittelbergheim since the 17th century, and since that time has worked in professions linked to the vine, from cooperage to viticulture.
At the beginning of the 1970s, Pierre and Doris Rietsch created the estate that bears their name by transforming their operation, which was then focused on mixed farming, into a purely wine business. The estate is today managed by Jean-Pierre Rietsch and his wife Sophie, assisted by Pierre-Etienne Grieshaber.
Their wines are made from grapes grown without chemicals. During the harvest, entirely manual, the grapes are sorted on the plot then pressed whole in order to avoid the effects of crushing.
All their work on the grapes and juices is carried out gently: the juices are extracted from the bunches in a pneumatic press at low pressure, over a fairly long period, from 5 to 12 hours, so that the press already acts as a filter, which will limit the extraction of lees.
This set of precautions aims to not strip the juices of their substance. The musts are then aged in slow and natural fermentation, over a period of 5 to 24 months depending on the case, using their native yeasts which feed on the material preserved in the juices.
No addition of sugar, no correction of acidity, no fining: our interventions during aging are limited to the strict minimum, in order not to disturb the character of the wine and to allow it to best express its characteristics, grape variety and terroir.
At the end of the fermentation process, certain wines are stabilized by filtration and the addition, if necessary, of very low doses of sulfur in order to treat possible bacterial problems.
Denny & Katie
Owners
Your friendly neighborhood wine shop and tiny bar, focused on small production wines and conservas. Connect with us on Instagram for suggestions on your next bottle and to follow along in our downtown Lafayette wine journey.
Visit us to shop and hang in person or order online for quick and easy pick up.
Hours
Tues-Thurs
1pm-7pm
Friday & Saturday
1pm-8pm
Closed Sunday & Monday