Take part in the Open Doors 2026 of the Domaine Camille Braun in Orschwihr, Alsace, on Saturday 23 May 2026, by registering to the vertical of the Grand Cru Pfingstberg Pinot Gris.

Verticale de Pinot Gris Grand Cru at Domaine Camille Braun – Time in Sharing

A special moment will be devoted to vertical Pinot Gris Grand Cru (on reservation). This tasting invites you to cross several vintages of the same terroir, to observe what remains and what is evolving. The Pinot Gris Grand Cru d'Alsace, often perceived in its immediate richness, reveals here another dimension: that of the holding, the structure, the ability to pass through time without getting lost, without dilute, without betraying the place that carried it.

A marno-calcaro-grey terroir, dominated by limestone

This place deserves to be stopped. The Grand Cru d'Orschwihr rests on a base marno-calcaro-grey a remarkable complexity: a layering of strata where the marne brings its restraint, sandstone its texture, and limestone its rigour. But not everything is uniform in this basement. Geology here is played in the details, in the lateral variations, in these micro-differences that only a long observation allows to read.

This is where the accuracy of the place comes in. Our Pinot Gris plots have been wisely implanted where, in this complex stratum, limestone predominates. Not the soft, friable limestone, without character, but a dense, structuring rock, which imposes on the ground a form of discipline that the vine ends up integrating into its own way of being. Limestone does not give wine its wealth: it gives it its spine. It retains what has to be held, lets go of what has to circulate, imposes an underground tension that is found, vintage after vintage, in the holding of the wine, in its length, in this way that it has to never spread completely.

It is this choice of plot, steep, visible from the road and beyond, which explains in large part why Pinots Gris in the Grand Cru Pfingstberg have such a special outfit. Not the immediate generosity of deeper and more marnous soils. Rather a precision, a verticality, a way to hold the line even in the most solar vintages.

From Pinot Gris rich to Pinot Gris dry : an evolution towards transparency

The Pinot Gris is a grape variety that has long sought its way on this terroir. For years he has expressed himself in wealth, in scope, in this golden generosity that has made his reputation. Late harvests, overmaturities, concentrations: so many ways to say the grape variety in its most immediate evidence. But something, gradually, has changed. Not in the terroir, it remains, immutable in its outline. But in the reading that one makes, in the way of accompanying him, to let him speak without amplifying.

Over the years, Pinots Gris du Domaine Camille Braun improved, refined, tightened. Wealth is still there, but it has put itself at the service of something more precise. The wine has become drier, more tense, more mineral. Not by impoverishment, but by clarification. As if the limestone terroir, better understood, could say what it had always meant: not abundance, but precision. Not power, but depth. Limestone, in its rigor, never really called overmaturity. He called for righteousness. It took time to hear it.

Crossing the vintages: what the vertical reveals

It is this evolution that the vertical Pinot Gris Grand Cru will allow you to cross. From one vintage to another, you will see the wine moving, redefining itself, refining its purpose. The first years of selection will still bear the mark of a certain opulence, of generous maturity. Then, gradually, something tightens. The line is clear. Acidity resumes its place, not as a correction, but as a found evidence. The wine becomes more straight, longer, more faithful to the limestone that carries it.

In a vertical wine of AlsaceWine is changing its language. He no longer speaks only of the year, but of the place that persists through the years. Each vintage brings its shade: a different tension, a greater or lesser maturity, a more reserved or more open expression. But in watermark, something remains. A line, a signature, a memory. The limestone one, always.

A constant quest: transparency and loyalty to the terroir

Behind this evolution, the same quest, constant, demanding: transparency. The faithful transcription of the terroir, without artifice, without overload, without interpretation that would cover what the ground has already begun to say. This is the philosophy of Domaine Camille Braun as a whole: to accompany rather than impose, to reveal rather than build, to leave in place the primacy of speech. And in this dialogue between the vine and the rock, between the vintage and the memory of the soil, the Pinot Gris on limestone is perhaps the fairest expression of what the field seeks to say.

This tasting allows to measure the depth of a Grand Cru of AlsaceNot in the moment, but in the duration. It shows how an estate is built, how a vision is defined, how the wine ends up like what the winemaker was looking for without always knowing how to name it. An hour spent going through time in a drink. One hour, maybe, to understand what the word really means. Land.

Practical information

• Workshop upon reservation – limited places
• Domaine Camille Braun – 16 Grand-Rue – 68500 Orschwihr
• Tel. : +33 (0)3 89 76 95 20
• Email: info@camille-braun.com

Saturday 23 May 2026 Programme

• Wine cellar visits throughout the day
• Tasting our wines
• Discovery of the 2024 vintage
• Tasting workshop: vertical Pinot Gris du Grand Cru Pfingstberg (on reservation)
• Lunch at the estate around Christophe's flambé pies

A day to meet the wine otherwise

Participate in this day of open doors in Orschwihr, is to choose a more inner approach to wine. Less landscape oriented, more towards what is played in the cellar and in time. It is entering wine by its elaboration, its transformation, its ability to evolve.

For those who want to understand what they enjoy, refine their gaze, connect the wines to their origin and their future, this day offers a moment at once accessible and in-depth. One way to remember that the wine is never frozen: it is built, it moves, it fits in with a duration.

The Domaine Camille Braun welcomes you for a day when the wine tells itself differently. In the cellar, in the glass, around a table. Just a day to take the time.

Reservation and registration

The mgourmet arch on Sunday 24 May, between Bollenberg and Grand Cru Pfingstberg (wine agreements), followed by lunch at the estate is proposed by reservation. Ltasting workshop around the Grand Cru Pfingstberg Gewurztraminer is also accessible by reservation.

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