Schieferkopf
Where blue schist breaks through the surface in Alsace, Schieferkopf in Alsace draws its unmistakable line: parcels such as “Fels” near Bernardvillé, steep, windswept and shallow-soiled, push the vines to root deep and speak with tension.
In the rows, work stays close to nature – cover crops, hand harvesting and strict yield control set the pace. In the cellar the approach is equally restrained: gentle pressing, native-yeast fermentations and time sur lie, often in large, neutral foudres, so grape and place – Riesling, Gewürztraminer, Sylvaner or Pinot Noir – remain sharply defined.
The result is a dry, linear style built on mineral drive rather than volume, shaped by cool air from the Vosges and the salty grip of schist. Schieferkopf captures the Rhine basin as a modern single-vineyard story: precise, confident and unapologetically rooted in origin.Schieferkopf
Where blue schist breaks through the surface in Alsace, Schieferkopf in Alsace draws its unmistakable line: parcels such as “Fels” near Bernardvillé, steep, windswept and shallow-soiled, push the vines to root deep and speak with tension.
In the rows, work stays close to nature – cover crops, hand harvesting and strict yield control set the pace. In the cellar the approach is equally restrained: gentle pressing, native-yeast fermentations and time sur lie, often in large, neutral foudres, so grape and place – Riesling, Gewürztraminer, Sylvaner or Pinot Noir – remain sharply defined.
The result is a dry, linear style built on mineral drive rather than volume, shaped by cool air from the Vosges and the salty grip of schist. Schieferkopf captures the Rhine basin as a modern single-vineyard story: precise, confident and unapologetically rooted in origin.
