• Varieties: Complantation of Riesling and Pinots
• Vine Age: Planted in 1982
• Name: La Colline Rouge (The Red Hill) is the translation of Rotenberg, the terroir this wine comes from. The Deiss family uses the French translation of their terroirs’ names for their predominantly skin-contact wines and keep the Alsatian names for their predominantly non-skin-contact versions.
• Terroir: Eastern exposure, iron-rich topsoils over white oolitic limestone. This is the earliest-ripening of the Bergheim terroirs.
• Viticulture: Organic (Ecocert), biodynamic (Demeter). 8,000 vines/ha.
• Vinification: Ambient yeast fermentation, 10-month maceration in amphorae. No filtration. No added SO2. Vinolok glass stopper.