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Yvette and Michel's wines
Our vineyards and Our vineyards, Grand Cru Frankstein:
Our vineyards environment The granite of Dambach:
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Yvette and Michel BECK-HARTWEG are vine-growers in Dambach-La-Ville, Alsace, France. Dambach, a medieval borough with a very old wine - tradition, lies as in a nest amidst the vineyards. Yvette
and Michel cultivate their vines and have produced wine from father to
son -or to daughter- for
several centuries. Yvette has managed to build our family-tree, or
better “family-
vinestock”, up to 1590
with 14 generations. At that time, Becks were already well-established
in Dambach. The family was large and all of them were wine-growers, of
course!
They
always have privileged the vines on the hills, more difficult to
cultivate, but giving very ripe small grapes and fruitier wines ! For
this reason, now we own a good place of vines on the hill “FRANKSTEIN”,
classified as a GRAND CRU,
and on the other hills above Dambach
like the Breitstein, Lanzenberg, Frauenberg.
Up
to 1956, Charles and Marie-Louise BECK started to bottle their wines
themselves and to sell them directly to private customers. Their
daughter Yvette and her husband Michel have taken over their work.
We want to stay a familial estate where we can work ourselves in the vineyards, vinificate our own wines and know each of our customers personally.
References: -
HACHETTE Wine-Guide since 1989 -
Wine access Magazine from Globe and Mail Newspaper 96 -
Gilbert and Gaillard Wine-Guide -
Format Raisin 1990 and 1997 -
”La Revue du Vin de France” June
1996,1997, Nov.1998. -
Patrick Dussert Gerber Wine-Guide
since 1998 RESTAURANTS:
In Alsace: Le Crocodile
Strasbourg ; L’Ecrevisse Brumath; L’Agneau
67 Roppenheim, Auberge du Jura 68 Kiffis.
In Champagne, Le Royal Champagne Champillon; Le Chant des
Galipes Verzy.
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