DOMAINE ALINE ET REMY SIMONVINS ROUGES DE SAINT-HIPPOLYTE |
 After the resumption of an ancestral family vineyard and with much of determination and will, the marketing of our production began during the years 1990. Most of our vines are at the foot of the majestic Château du Haut-Koenigsbourg. With 6 hectares of vines and in spite of the youth of the house, we produce mainly wines with High Expression and we align each year a score of vintages thanks to a keen work and to neat completions. Among a great number of references, let us quote inter alia the range of the Old Vines, the whole of our wines of soil like the BURGREBEN or SILBERGRUB without forgetting our famous “ROUGE DE SAINT-HIPPOLYTE”. In 2003, we celebrated the birth of our last cuvée: “HARMONIE”, a table wine which is declined in white or rosy according to mood. The typicity and the quality of our vintages are regularly rewarded in various competitions and re-examined: Guide hachette, Prix d’Excellence , medals… |
EARL CHAMPAGNE P. LANCELOT-ROYERCRAMANT |
 Estate created in 1960 per Pierre Lancelot, and taken again in 1996 by his/her daughter Sylvie and her son-in-law Michel Chauvet. The cellars are dug in the hillock of chalk right behind the house. The press is at the top of the hillock, must is conveyed in the tanks by gravity. The Champagne brut cuvée des Chevaliers Grand Cru, Chardonnay 100%, resulting from 30 year old vines, is of rich and very delicate foam, with the nuances of honey, the nose of small fruits (peach), quite firm and suave mouth, with delicate and silky texture, a wine all in distinction which is tasted on a roasted salmon, for example. The Champagne Blanc de blancs cuvée de Réserve R.R, pure Chardonnay also, of very beautiful color, with this nose prevailed by the dry fruits and the fresh flowers, of full mouth to the nuances of fresh almond, light foam, combines delicacy and structure finally. |
CHATEAU MONT-REDONCHATEAUNEUF-DU-PAPE |
 In the mid-18th century, Mont Redon was bought by a member of the nobility: Joseph Ignace d'Astier, a lawyer and a Doctor in Law from Avignon. Mont Redon then passed into the hands of the Mathieu family. Anselme Mathieu, known as the Marquis de Mont Redon, ran this estate with his brothers when their father died. But then disaster hit the family and the estate had to be divided up. In 1923, Mont Redon was bought by the Plantin family. Henri Plantin decided to regroup the various parts of land and give the estate its current physiognomy: that of a property covering a total of 162 hectares, including 100 planted with vines. Château Mont Redon, a family estate for four generations, with its ever-present vineyard, has a long list of references and a great tradition. |
PIERRE FRICKPINOT BLANC |
 In 1970, the winegrowing is converted with the biological culture, the first applications off the biodynamy beginning in 1981. Starting from harvest 1986, the Demeter mention is obtained, and, since harvest 2002, the wine is not stopped any more with Cork drank with capsules crowns out off stainless, to avoid the organoleptic deviations (savors and aromas) caused by the Cork stopers. The Gewurztraminer Eichberg Grand cru 2005 subtle, is very scented, all in distinction, supple, with aromas off roasted and off almond, fleshy, full and persist stops summons, has wine off final intense year, with the fresh and powerful palate At the same time. The Pinot gris Vendanges Tardives 2001, is rich with the nose ace in mouth, the aromas off scraper fruits and flowers, to charm, intense and fleshy, off guard. Excellent Riesling Rot Murlé 2003, scented, with quite typical notes off citrus fruits, fruity mouth, like the Pinot blanc 2005, vinified without sulfur, has floral wine, with the intense and complex nose, off has very good aromatic persistence, beautiful color, with thesis nuances off dry fruits persist, nervous and dense mouth At the same time. |
CHATEAU LA GALIANEMARGAUX |
 Château La Galiane owes its name to Galian, an English general who commanded his troops here during their occupation of Aquitaine in the 15th century. This has been a family estate for several generations and has a surface area of 5 hectares planted with 45 % Merlot, 50 % Cabernet Sauvignon and 5% Petit Verdot, a combination which gives that perfect, classical balance which is so typical of the Margaux appellation. The vineyard is planted on slopes with fine gravel soils. These wine-growers from father to son produce La Galiane wines with a lovely ruby-red colour and a fine bouquet, very harmonious and smooth in the mouth. The tannins are fine and elegant and the wines have good ageing capacity. Château Charmant has 5 hectares of vines which are a hundred years old and planted on fine gravel soils with lots of pebbles which are ploughed. Harvesting is done by hand and the vatting process is long in order to extract all the aromas before maturing the wine in barrels for 12 months. Château Charmant produces an aromatic wine with good colour, very complex and elegant, perfectly balanced, well-structured and supple at the same time and opening out delightfully with age. |
