Chasselas is Switzerland's calling card, but it holds a small stronghold in Alsace, barely a hundred hectares, and Boxler gives it 45-year-old vines on granite, farmed organically. That granite reads straight through: taut, saline, more mineral spine than fruit weight, with the mid-palate quietly filling in behind it. A grape most people have never ordered, from a producer who takes it seriously.
About the Producer
The small family domaine in France that works traditionally using techniques and savoir faire passed down across multiple generations is under serious threat today. Consolidation, technology, regulation, foreign investment, globalization, and many other factors (all in the name of progress), threaten the great agricultural tradition of winegrowing in France, arguably the world’s greatest winegrowing culture. Few domaines in France embody this way of life more ably and proudly than Domaine Albert Boxler in Niedermorschwihr.