Klevener de Heiligenstein

Klevener of saints or holy stone Steiner Klevener (or Alsace - Klevener of Holy Stone ) is a protected designation of origin within the AOC Alsace. Only approved grape variety is the savagnin Rose, a mutation of the savagnin. The appellation applies only to an area of ​​max. 87.70 hectares, which is distributed to the municipalities Bourgheim, Gertwiller, Goxwiller, Holy Stone and Obernai. According to current regulations, a planting of the specific grape variety is no longer allowed outside of the appellation area where the use of this appellation designation is permitted only until 2021.

Compared to a Gewürztraminer wines are clearly neutral, have more acid and a lower alcohol content. Good copies win after a bottle age of 4 - 5 years to clear profile and can be very durable. When in Alsace also known Klevner is, however, to wines of the grape Pinot Blanc.

In Alsace, the sale of cask wine is prohibited. The wine must be bottled at the sale in bottles that are here narrow and pulled up. The bottles are called because of their shape as flute (flute).

History

The grape savagnin Rose was introduced in 1740 by Erhard Wantz, the mayor of the Holy Stone in the Alsace region. Ampelographers believe that Wantz imported seedlings from the area of Chiavenna in Lombardy. Chiavenna was then called in German usage Cleven. In 1971, the current status granted to Klevener of Holy Stone was established.

Savagnin rose and Gewurztraminer are to be distinguished only by very experienced ampelographers with the eye of one another. The visually obvious difference is the transparency of the berry bowl just before the color change of the berry (French veraison ). Means, however, DNA analysis can be carried out a genetic differentiation. By the early 1970s, the winery often did not know why certain Gewürztraminer wines were not of the usual floral bouquet. Therefore, it was usually decided after the winemaking which wine was declared as Gewürztraminer and which wine as Traminer. Both savagnin rose and Gewurztraminer were mostly unintentionally Joint sentence together. Only after clarification of this fact different varieties use of the name Traminer was generally prohibited in Alsace in 1973. Exception was the area around the Holy Stone, as the share of savagnin Rose Vine there was unusually high.