From Back in Alsace:

“Catherine farms 3.5 hectares of vineyards around the village of Reichsfeld, 40 kilometres south west of Strasbourg. Her numerous parcelles sit between the big reputation vineyards of Andlau, Barr and Mittelbergheim to the north and Nothalten to the south. Vineyards where the likes of Meyer, Kreydenweiss, Kleinknecht, Ostertag, Rieffel, Rietsch and Stoeffler, amongst others, set the standards that have an international reputation for artisan relevant wine. Catherine’s winemaking facility is located in Bernardvillé and she lives in nearby Mittelbergheim.

Camille Rivière, Catherine’s U.S. importer based in New York, described that individual signature style as “Funambule, queen of precision, bottled pleasure with a dangerous drinkability.” Funambule is French for tightrope walker, so you can see the reference to precision, equilibrium and a delicate fine balance in the wines. Nicely summed up by Camille, sounding like some cool, modern day wine poet.

On the steep slopes, all fruit is hand harvested and brought into the cellar in small baskets/cajeots. This gets the winemaking off to a start with high attention to detail. The work carries on in the cellar, with each cuveé treated as a special case in terms of the techniques, which are low on intervention and high on patience.

And the wines. None of your regular, same every year cuveés coming out from Catherine. This is artisan production from what can be regarded as a micro domaine. We would expect and also look forward to vintage variations. Not only based on the growing season but also influenced by cellar temperature conditions, which can have quite an influence on fermentation time and how the wines age on their lees. There is a definite style running through the wines and it’s well described above by Camille Rivière; delicate, balanced, poised. You could even say posed.”