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The Club
Portrait / Antoine Kreydenweiss, energy and talent.
Published on 13 July 2017
Succeeding a renowned father is never easy. Antoine Kreydenweiss, the 13th generation of Winery, threw himself body and soul into the adventure in 2007, at only 26 years old.
His father, Marc, seeing the energy that his young son was putting into the life of Winery first advised him to move forward calmly and then quickly left him in charge with one last piece of advice: Enjoy yourself. This is whatAntoine is trying to do on this vineyard nestled at the foot of the mountains, halfway between Strasbourg and Colmar, with 13.5 hectares where biodynamic viticulture has reigned since 1989. In just a few years, Antoine has put in place his vision of wine, always anxious to respect what has been entrusted to him but without letting this responsibility crush him. He attaches great importance to the work of the soil (with his horse Sam) and to the maturity, he makes sure that it is as balanced as possible, whereas his father sometimes tended to favour it in the great wines. Then, in the cellar, open to the experiences of his colleagues, he extended the pressings (8 to 12 hours). Inspired by his exchanges with Patrick Meyer, Antoine quickly moved towards the conception of demanding wines, with a complex aromatic evolution worked without sulphur. His Kastelberg cuvée, for example, has an incredible fullness, with a tannic and saline side that is a delight. This is probably one of the great natural terroir wines of Alsace today. It is made by a winemaker of barely 30 years of age just at the beginning of his career...
