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Winemaker François Barmès, is to be found at Wettolsheim in the Alsace wine region between Colmar and Eguisheim. He makes exceptional wines of great character, entirely bio-dynamically. The wines are expressive of their vineyards, elegant, complex, full of fruit and character and with great aromatic finesse. They have been mentioned many times in trade magazines, both from France and abroad. 
" Wine is made on the vine and not in the winery" 70% of our vineyards are on slopes that are largely composed of limestone or clayey-limestone from the Oligocene epoch, with a little on micaceous granite. The remaining 30% are essentially on alluvial fans, consisting of sand and pebbles in a very dry micro-climate. We work the vineyards bio-dynamically, that's to say with activated preparations, according to the influence of the planets and the apogee and perigee of the moon. No synthesized chemical product is used, neither in the vineyards nor in the winery. The aim of this is to keep the initial balance of the grapes undisturbed, and not to mask the effect of the vintages, so that the wine can show its “terroir” to the maximum and to preserve the energy it has acquired (from the bio-dynamic culture of the vines). 
Second most important winemaking village in Alsace, Wettolsheim is 4 km from Colmar, right at the base of the foothills of the Vosges. This terroir basks in a warm, dry semi-continental climate which favours the perfect ripening of grapes. The Colmar region, of which Wettolsheim is part, has the region's lowest rainfall, 500 mm of rain a year (similar to Perpignan). 
Vineyards include sites like Rosenberg, Leimenthal, Pfleck, Clos Sand and Herrenweg Grands Crus sites include Grand Cru Hengst, Grand Cru Steingrubler and Grand Cru Pfersigberg |
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