Les Champs des Roches VdF 2024

Wine Description for Les Champs des Roches VdF 2024 by Hunter McKirdy

Colour & Appearance

Pale, crystal-clear yellow with silvery reflections – a visual harbinger of the mineral precision this wine promises.

Nose

Here Hunter McKirdy’s vision of a modern Alsatian Riesling in its purest form reveals itself: instead of opulent fruit, a glass-clear minerality dominates, reminiscent of crushed stone and seashells. You can almost feel the sea breeze – a salty, iodine-fresh quality that defines the wine in its youth. With air contact, restrained notes of apricot, white peach and elderflower unfold, yet they remain deliberately in the background.

Palate

A rough diamond – elegant, delicate, uncompromising. The precise acidity works like a scalpel, cutting cleanly and sharply, yet never aggressively, but irresistibly mouth-watering. This Riesling demands the next sip, and the next. The texture is lean, almost wire-taut, the fruit remains subtle, minerality dominates the play. A wine that doesn’t seek to please, but to convince.

Finish

Long, salty-mineral, with a freshness that dances on the tongue for minutes after swallowing. The acidity resonates like a pure note.

Terroir & Origin

The Burgreben at the foot of the Zellenberg hill are geologically an anomaly in the chalk-dominated Alsace: a mere 25 cm deep layer of gravel deposits from the Mindel glaciation over Oligocene limestone. The east-facing exposure at 230 metres altitude and the excellent drainage of these „field stones“ create ideal conditions for early-ripening Riesling with pronounced minerality.

Grape Variety & Vinification

100% Riesling from this singular terroir, vinified with minimalist intervention. Hunter McKirdy lets the place speak – the result is a wine of aromatic complexity coupled with crystalline clarity.

Food Pairing Recommendations

This wine demands purist companions: oysters, scallops, sashimi, goat’s cheese or simply fresh baguette with salted butter. Anything that doesn’t mask its mineral precision.

Special Features

A statement for the new Alsace – dry, mineral, uncompromisingly modern. If you’re looking for Riesling as a fruit bomb, you’re in the wrong place. If you want to experience terroir in its purest form, you’re in the right place.