We're thrilled to have just received a kaleidoscope of liquid Alsace from Yann Durrmann, arriving from both the 2024 and 2025 vintages.
The wines of 2024 - a warm, wet & humid year - have great purity and finesse, and with a little extra time in bottle have gained a lovely sense of balance, with lively fruit and juicy acids.
The reds of 2025 - a warm vintage with good acidity thanks to cool nights and well timed rain - are particularly fun, bright and full of life, with just the right spark of volatile that we love in Yann's Pinot.
Alongside these we've had a very healthy top-up of some cuvées, everything that's available now is listed below. Details on the wine are detailed below.
Yann has been heading up the domaine since 2018, taking an already groundbreaking Alsatian family who were dedicated to organic farming, a long-established no-till practice, agroforestry, and indigenous fermentations one step further into unfiltered, zero sulphur winemaking.
Yann is committed to expressing his varied terroir scattered over 30 small parcels around the village, the wines are an inspiring snapshot of his and his family's hard work in the forested hills of Andlau.
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SPARKLING
2022 Noctambulle - Pinot Gris, Pinot Noir - 14.47
2022 Pet Nat Toqué - Pinot Gris - 14.89
2024 Grizzling - Riesling - 14.96
2023 Gaz de Schiste - Pinot Blanc & Pinot Gris - 15.25
WHITE
NEW 2025 Sylvaner
Destemmed, 24 hours on skins and fermented and aged in tank, then bottled with as much lees as possible and as close to fermentation as possible, as Yann prefers the bottle as an ageing vessel.
NEW 2024 Riesling sur Calcaire
A limestone parcel Yann planted 12 years ago and is finally reached a high enough yield for a terroir-cuvée in recent years.
Yann, forever humble despite his huge experience, speaks with joy and intrigue about this wine to complete the set: "Riesling on Calacaire is new to me, the other soils I have been working with my whole life, so I understand these. I wouldn't like to say definitively how calcaire shows itself, I'm still learning.
It's certainly on the citrus, perhaps lime, but has more acidity and salinity than the sandy Grés and Granite parcels."
Destemmed, 24 hours on skins and fermented and aged in tank, then bottled with as much lees as possible and as close to fermentation as possible, as Yann prefers the bottle as an ageing vessel.
NEW 2024 Riesling Sur Schistes
Schist yields a more tense style to the aromatic Grés and Granite, with white pepper and very fine tannin - mineral, tense and spicy.
Destemmed, 24 hours on skins and fermented and aged in whichever vessel is correct, then bottled with as much lees as possible and as close to fermentation as possible
NEW 2024 Grand Cru Wiewelsbari
For Yann, Sandstone yields a Riesling with forward-driving acid and bigger aromatics, with pithy citrus.
Destemmed, 24 hours on skins and fermented and aged in Alsacian foudres. A parcel on the steep Wiebelsberg hill (the hill of the nuns), planted over sandstone. Yann has 0.8 hectares here, half the vines aged 40 years, the other half 60 years old.
NEW 2023 Grand Cru Kastlebari
Smokey, spicy, saline, amazing length.
Destemmed, 24 hours on skins and fermented and aged in Alsacian foudres. From the Kastelberg vineyard, that rises over the village of Andlau, facing south, a rocky parcel but warm. Vines are planted on the terraced hills, over its unique compressed or 'recooked' Schist - a hard, dense and very mineral schist. Most of the vines from this parcel are those Yann's dad planted, averaging at 40 years old. Their parcel is 0.8 hectares, with a tiny yield.
SKINS
2024 Zegwur - Gewurz
Yann has been picking from two parcels of Gewurz over Granite & Gres for this wine since heavy mildew damage in 2021 - he likes the balance so much that he's continued since. One third was macerated for three weeks, the rest for 24 hours. This is such a wonderful vintage for Zegwur - rose, lychee & kiwi - saline and elegant, just enough aromatics and chew to keep you interested, long driving acids - pure!
NEW 2025 Krax - Riesling
From a couple of parcels on the Col de Crax, the same hill on which Wiebelsberg can be found, the parcels are next to the Wiebelsberg parcel.
Destemmed , 3 weeks on skins with gentle punchdowns. Using Yann's custom-designed immersion grids in stainless steel fermenting bins that can be tipped directly into the press.
RED
NEW 2025 Litron Rouge - Pinots Noir & Gris
Negoce grapes from Yann's neighbour, farmed organically.
De-stemmed, 50 % Pinot Noir, 50% Pinot Gris with 3-4 weeks on skins.
An infusion using Yann's custom-designed immersion grids in stainless steel fermenting bins that can be tipped directly into the press.
NEW 2025 Rouge Gorge Pinot Noir
De-stemmed, 3 weeks on skins using infusion. Negoce grapes from Yann's neighbour, farmed organically. De-stemmed, 3-4 weeks on skins.
An infusion using Yann's custom-designed immersion grids in stainless steel fermenting bins that can be tipped directly into the press.
