« Here no need to watch,
the bell rings ».
« Do brucha sea ke Uhr, as lütet ».
You have to take the road that winds from the plain, climb gently through the fields, and it is only at the last detour that the village of Orschwihr is revealed. « Here, no need for a watch, the bell rings ». Nestled in the hollow of the valley, it is discovered as a well-kept secret, protected by the benevolent round of the hills.
It is clear that this village is not like the others. The stare clings to it, caught by the curve of the landscape, by this cocoon of vines in amphitheatre. Here, the relief is not simple decor: it envelops, it houses. It imposes a form of silence. An inhabited, deep, contemplative silence. In this close and intimate geography, where nothing is flat, the vines cling to the slopes with stubbornness, and the work of the winegrowers takes on another dimension.
The Vineyard seen from above
In Alsace, wine speaks in a low voice and in specific places. It is not described in large categories, but in plots, slope lines, thicknesses of soil, in transmitted uses. Here, the geology of climates commands everything: it is a mosaic of horizons, of nuances, which influence the taste of wine. A climate is not only a defined area: it is a story of light and shadow, wind, rare water or restraint, stones that warm up, repeated gestures until they become language.
The climate becomes the punctuation of the landscape: the comma of a flat, the organ point of a ridge, the parenthesis of a wood that protects. Wine, then, is no longer an idea: it is the diction of a place.
Orschwihr thus offers itself as an open library: each hill a book, each row a chapter, each vintage an annotated margin. And in the silence that precedes the words, the vine takes a voice.
Wine
THE BOUTILLES
It is in Orschwihr, a wine-growing village located on the southern part of the Route des Vins of Alsace that the family Camille BRAUN, a wine-grower, invites you to discover its estate, its passion for the vine and its great wines of terroir.
The estate is certified Bio, but also Demeter and Biodyvin for biodynamics.
