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Appellation

Zinnkoepflé

Identity card

Grand cruAOPWhite

Alsace › Alsace Grand Cru · Recognised on 17 December 1992

  1. Grand cru
  2. Regional

Key points

  1. Communes: Soultzmatt and Westhalten (Haut-Rhin).
  2. Minimum natural alcohol: 12.5% (Gewurztraminer, Pinot Gris), 11% (others).
  3. Hand-harvested; bottling required in the Bas-Rhin or Haut-Rhin.

Grape varieties

White wine only

Allowed varieties

RieslingGewurztraminerPinot GrisMuscat à Petits GrainsMuscat Ottonel

One variety per wine; only the muscats may be blended together

Muscat à petits grains, white or pink

Production rules

  • 50

    hl/ha

    Maximum yield

  • 4,500

    vines/ha

    Minimum planting density

Minimum ageing: At least until 1 November of the year after the harvest

Terroir

  • Lie of the land: One of the vineyard's summits; very steep slopes
  • Climate: Cooled late in the season from the Petit Ballon
  • Soils: Shell-limestone subsoil

Wine style

  • spicy
  • lightly smoky
  • saline
  • powerful
  • age beyond ten years

Boundaries: INAO, AOC vineyard plot delimitation (September 2026 edition) · Open Licence

"Alsace grand cru Zinnkoepflé" is one of the fifty-one "Alsace grand cru" appellations, in the communes of Soultzmatt and Westhalten (Haut-Rhin), recognised in 1992. One of the highest points in the Alsace vineyard, with very steep slopes, ventilated late in the season by cool currents off the Petit Ballon, with a Mediterranean, even Caspian-type mesoclimate sharpened by the arena shape of the Vallée Noble.

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