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Le Verre est dans le Fruit 2023, Bruno Schueller

Region: Alsace

Color: Dry and taut white wine, an expression of free Riesling, born from young vines of the Eichberg and Pfersigberg Grand Crus in Husseren-les-Châteaux. Pale yellow color with golden reflections, crystalline nose of citrus, green apple and chalky notes, carried by that taut minerality characteristic of Bruno's Rieslings. Lively, precise, salivating palate, a beautiful salinity, long and mineral finish — a straightforward and vertical Riesling, in the purest Schueller tradition.

Grape varieties: Riesling

Mouth type: With a discerning palate, natural wine no longer intimidates you; you're ready to enter another dimension and make astonishing discoveries. Let yourself be carried away into this world of emotions and surprises!

Service Tips: Serve cool but not chilled, around 10-11 °C. Open the bottle a good hour in advance, or decant to release the full body and allow the minerality to express itself.

Guard time: A Riesling that needs time to reveal itself and mature – to be enjoyed now for its taut and crystalline youth, or to be left for several years in the cellar to gain in complexity.

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Volume 75 cl, alcohol 12%.

WINEMAKER'S STORY — Bruno Schueller, Domaine Gérard Schueller
Bruno Schueller is a prominent figure in Alsatian natural wine, based in Husseren-les-Châteaux, south of Colmar. He continues and perpetuates the work begun by his father Gérard, with rare exacting standards and a character all his own — frank, wholehearted, uncompromising.

The estate cultivates approximately 10 hectares on the hillsides of Husseren, Eguisheim, and Voegtlinshoffen, with plots in several Grand Crus (Pfersigberg, Eichberg) and on the lieux-dits Bildstoecklé and Bild, which are dear to the estate. The soils are predominantly calcareous, clay-limestone, and marly — a complex geology that gives the wines their mineral signature.

Long committed to natural wine, Bruno vinifies without inputs and without added sulfites in the vast majority of his cuvées. His wines do not seek to please the Grand Cru commission — like his cousin Jean-François Ginglinger, he embraces a dry, taut style, without artificial residual sugars. Some cuvées like LN 012 (for "yeast number 012") humorously assert the estate's commitment to natural wine.

Across the entire range, one finds the full Alsatian palette — Pinot Blanc, Pinot Gris, Riesling, Gewurztraminer, Pinot Noir — with, for each grape variety, this personal interpretation that has made Bruno's reputation: lively, precise, sometimes perplexing, but always sincere wines deeply rooted in their terroir.

Label & Natural Wines

Some labels can help us identify a natural wine. The AB label, for example, certifies organic farming. The Demeter label, for its part, guarantees biodynamics. There is also the 'Vin Méthode Nature' label, as well as 'Nature et Progrès', 'Les Vins SAINS', and many others.

Some estates choose to adhere to a single label, or even not to be labeled at all, even though their cultivation and winemaking method would allow it. In other words, there is no strict rule. It all depends on the winemaker's vision, his desires, and his convictions.

For us, it is important to meet all the people we work with in order to understand their working method and select the products that match our ideology.

Natural wine

At Terra Vinea, we are deeply passionate about natural wine. We love the emotions it arouses, the surprises a bottle can give us, the memories wine gives us. We also find it important to consume a product grown and vinified with respect for the fauna and flora, preserving all the life around and in it. These convictions are part of us, and we are proud to represent these women and men who put their heart and soul into offering us these living wines.