The average temperatures are high but without excess. August is rather rainy whereas September is a little sunnier. November and October are regularly punctuated of rainy episodes.

From June, the vineyard undergoes some attacks of oïdium. But they are well controlled thanks to an early sulphur powdering.

After the stress of 2003, the vine has an important vegetative and fruit-bearing activity. In order to support the maturation of the grapes, we made some green harvests on the gewurztraminers.

Potential harvest is very large. In order to target only the ripest grapes, the harvests were made in several passages. Thank to this work, we picked up the pinots gris in selection of noble grains to a potential of 21,2° and the muscats, also in selection of noble grains, with a potential of 18,6°.

The consequence of these passages was a great spreading out of the harvests: they started with the pinots noirs and the first pinots gris on September 26th, to finish with the rieslings and muscats at the end of November.

Another consequence of the climatic conditions, the selection of the juices was more precise during the pressing in order to preserve the glare of the flavours and the purity of the wines.

Dry white wines: beautiful balances let predict beautiful wines of gastronomy. The liqueur-like white wines, because of the great maturity of the grapes, have flavours of exotic fruits typical from the Clos Saint Landelin and a big length.

Lastly, on the pinots noirs, we find this year the quality of the clay and limestones soils of Rouffach for the production of red wines. Body and minerality are present as well as a beautiful color supported by fine tannins.

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