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Winemaker Antoine Kreydenweiss comes to Québec to lead prestigious tasting at Hovey
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This year's Montréal Highlights Festival will feature an "off-festival" happening: a tasting featuring the award-winning wines of the Domaine Kreydenweiss. Head sommelier Steven Monfette (at left), who has led Manoir Hovey to win this year its third consecutive Best of Award of Excellence from Wine Spectator, has planned a very special evening where guests will taste some of the winery's rarities, paired with a menu designed to match each wine to perfection.
Six wines in total will be poured, all of them rare and unavailable at the SAQ.
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Winemaker Antoine Kreydenweiss (at left) has come to Québec expressly to lead two tasting dinners: one at Toqué, as part of the Highlights Festival, on February 21, and another at Hovey, on February 22 (wednesday) .
The cost for the dinner including a welcome drink and all wines is of $ 175 per person
(plus tax and tip).
- At 6h30, the welcome drink will be served at Hovey's historic pub, the Tap Room
- At 7h30, the six-course dinner begins, in Hovey's dining room.
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In 1990, Marc Kreydenweiss (at left) made his vineyard biodynamic, a rare distinction. That means his wines are organic, made without industrialized fertilizers or pesticides, and vines are tended in accordance with the cycles of the sun, moon and stars. In order to control yields, vines are nipped short and excessive buds are cut off to maximize aeration. Grapes are hand-harvested and selected. Natural yeasts are used in fermentation, while wines age in oak barrels in the underground caves.
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Domaine Kreydenweiss (at left) is a family enterprise, established in Alsace more than three centuries ago. It is renowned for its exceptional rieslings.
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In 1999, the Kreydenweiss family embarked on a new challenge, and bought the Domaine des Perrières, in the Southern Rhône valley, 50 km West of Châteauneuf du Pape and 10 km Southeast of Nîmes. The Kreydenweiss family
is now doing their part to save Carignan, one of the oldest varietals in the region, from becomming extinct by producing a red wine blend comprised mostly of Carignan, with Syrah and Grenache blended in.
The exceptional terroir that comes through in Kreydenwiess wines has become more
and more distinctive over time, with each vineyard expressing its individuality. The
soils are living again, as they were over three centuries ago when Marc Kreydenweiss’
ancestors first planted their vineyards. The wines have higher acidity and malolactic
fermentation occurs naturally.
As the magazine Wine & Spirits puts it, “The Domaine Kreydenweiss exists on that intriguing fault line between deeply traditional and the avant-garde.”
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