Andre Scherer
From father to son the tradition continues winemaker. Andre SCHERER, 8th generation succeeded his father Armand SCHERER developed and developed this vineyard aboriginal and his wife, herself from a family of wine growers Gueberschwihr merchant. Now, their son Christopher, winemaker, is helping to perpetuate the family tradition and faithfully serves the demanding and generous wine. The property Scherer 18th Century building in the heart of the village. The Castle and its outbuildings belonged to a baron of the Empire, Knight of St. Louis. In the 19th century Jean-Baptiste SCHERER from a long line of notables Alsatian bought the area for supplementing his Vineyard. Having studied viticulture and winemaking in Burgundy and honed his knowledge in a large Chateau Bordeaux then exercised its qualities of wine in a "wineries in Australia, winemaker Christophe SCHERER resumed the family estate in the 1990s. Thus the tradition was never interrupted for the family of winemakers SCHERER who has devoted more than two centuries of vine cultivation and rearing its wines of Alsace, combining the expertise of the family vineyard modern methods. Covering 7 hectares on the hillsides deemed Eguisheim, the winery Andre SCHERER currently has two hectares of land on Grand Cru Eichberg and Pfersigberg. Wines Gewurztraminer, Riesling and Pinot Gris compose most of the plantings. Continuing a family tradition jealously preserved and faithfully transmitted, Christopher Scherer, producer and wine merchant, completes this heritage by adding to the attentive care the best modern techniques in order to complete the work a subtle balance of nature in Alsace. In the cellar, cleanliness and attention to detail are the norm. The winemaking is done on a common technical standard: crushing, de-stemming, pressing, débourdage, yeast, fermentation at controlled temperature, racking and clarification by filtration. The bottling of wine from Alsace is staggered between early spring and the month of September to release the barrels for the following harvest. Young Christophe Scherer, taking over from his father, Andre, is quickly establishing the name of this domaine. He makes rich, yet subtle wines. They offer a superb example of a third style to complement Schoffit’s intensity and Mann’s delineation. Christophe works entirely with oak for his fermentations; large tonneau for the Pinot Blanc, Tokay and Gewurztraminer, and barrique for the Vieilles Vignes cuvees of Tokay and Auxerrois. He is, in my experience, one of the most deftly gifted of any winemaker in Alsace, with the use of barriques. His 1998 Tokay VV, entirely barrique fermented, one-third of which is new oak, exudes rich, honeyed, melony, smoky Tokay in the nose, not the vanillans of oak. On the palate it delivers the richness promised on the nose, with oak only acting to enhance. Sheltered from oceanic influence by the Vosges mountains, which gives it one of the lowest rainfall in France (500-600 mm per year), the vineyards of Alsace has a semi-continental climate sunny and warm sec. Located on the hills of the Vosges, between 200 and 400 meters, the vineyard enjoys maximum sunlight through the particularly high level of vines. The vines in the vineyards are plowed, cleared if necessary, maintained sparingly in the spirit of rational cultivation and harvested by hand. “At its best this house produces the most refined wines of Eguisheim in the excellent Grand Crus of Pfersigberg and Eichberg.” - Le Classement, 1999 Revue du Vin de France