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the SYLVANER

 
Sylvaner - CIVA - Domaines Schlumberger
With its light green grapes, produces a white wine that is dry, fresh, fruity, sometimes with a slightly sparkling characteristic, very easy to drink.

The Sylvaner is the perfect wine for seafood platter, cold meats, pâté en croûte (paté in a crust), starters, fish, or wine of thirst.
 
 
 

the PINOT BLANC

 
Pinot Blanc - CIVA - Domaines Schlumberger
Darker green with yellow reflections, a grape variety that remained little known outside Alsace for a long time, and is becoming increasingly popular thanks to its great conviviality. Marked with a great suppleness, it produces a white wine that is dry, very well balanced, supple but which also remains sharp and peppy. Two grape varieties close to Pinot Blanc can be distinguished : the Pinot d’Alsace, known as Pinot Vrai (True Pinot), with a better natural acidity, which mainly gives the wine its fruitiness and smoothness, and the Pinot Auxerrois (Pinot from Auxerre), more alcoholic and with a higher concentration of natural sugar, which provides the strength.

At the Domaines Schlumberger, they are combined according to a 80/20 % ratio.
A wine comfortable in any situation where using a white wine is essential, it adapts to the most simple dishes as well as the most sophisticated.
 
 
 

the RIESLING

 
Riesling - CIVA - Domaines Schlumberger
Green with pale yellow reflections, is considered as the “king” grape variety of Alsace.

It produces white wine that is dry, proud and virile, distinguished, with a delicate fruitiness and a very smooth bouquet. It reaches the peak of its potential in the terroirs of Grands Crus, where it expresses its uniqueness with wonder.

The Riesling is unrivalled with fish and shellfish, some white meats, and can be used for daily preparations as well as very refined dishes.
 
 
 

the MUSCAT

 
Muscat - CIVA - Domaines Schlumberger
Pale yellow with slightly golden reflections, produces a dry wine, with a very marked fruitiness, giving the impression of biting into the grape. Very different from the sweet muscats. It comes from the Muscat Ottonel, which provides the smoothness, the fruitiness and the crunch of fresh grapes.

A delicate grape variety, very sensitive to run-out, cannot sustain mediocrity, and is not necessarily successful anywhere, nor all the time (often called “the wine grower’s dancer”), the wine for pleasure.

Wonderful wine for the aperitif, excellent for selling by the glass, it is also a very good companion for asparagus.
 
 
 

THe PINOT GRIS

 
Pinot Gris - CIVA - Domaines Schlumberger
Darker grape, of a faded pink, is characterised by its great suppleness much like the Pinot Blanc. Clearly richer and sophisticated, it is headier, opulent and vigorous, with a discrete fruitiness, has a very good ageing potential if of quality and good vintage.

The Pinot Gris is also a wine for which demand is constantly growing. It is extremely versatile; its flavours of soil, undergrowth, smoky, fatty, make it the perfect companion for terrines, mushrooms, cream, white meats, puff pastry, game, fish in sauce and many other combinations. (Foie Gras of course).
 
 
 

the GEWURZTRAMINER

 
Gewurztraminer - CIVA - Domaines Schlumberger
Grey grape, with a thicker skin, is the unrivalled grape variety in Alsace. Contrary to the others, which are found throughout the world, with some great success stories, it is really only in our region that it produces wines of such great finesse, with such perfect balances between the fruits, the smoothness and the strength.
The Gewurztraminer produces wines that are vigorous, full bodied, very aromatic, with a strong bouquet and very elegant. Just like Muscat, it does not sustain half-measures, the “pasty” side. Its greatest success stories are found in the Upper Rhine region, primarily for climatic reasons, and Guebwiller has always had the reputation for its capital and prime location.
It is less difficult to drink than one may think: aperitif, dessert wine by excellence, it is the perfect companion for exotic cuisine, Chinese mostly, or meat dishes with fruits (also with a dish of shellfish, such as lobster flambé).
 
 
 

the PINOT NOIR

 
Pinot Noir - CIVA - Domaines Schlumberger
Dark blue grape, produces the only “red” wine of Alsace. Deliciously fruity, it is highly appreciated for its charm and originality. As a red wine, with a longer period of maceration, the Pinot Noir is stronger and more vigorous, with raspberry flavours, perfect with game animals and red meats.

Along these grape varieties, there is only one wine of assembly in Alsace: EDELZWICKER.

Around 50 years ago, one distinguished the Edel, which did not contain any Chasselas, and the Zwicker, which did contain Chasselas. It is a wine that is fresh, sharp, simple and pleasant, often served by the jug. It is usually made up of Chasselas, Pinot Blanc, Riesling and Muscat, but all types of assembly are authorised.