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General information

General information

- Creation of the company : March 1926.
- A patrimony of 390 ha in the heart of Alsace Vineyard distributed between 180 winegrowers in 14 villages + 100 hectares in extern.
- Wine making and marketing of a complete range of 7 Alsatian traditionnal main varietals declined in 3 appellations : A.O.C. Alsace, A.O.C. Alsace Grand Cru and A.O.C. Cremant d'Alsace ; also mentions Vendanges Tardives and Sélection de Grains Nobles.
- Turnover of 15 millions € including 30 % realized in the export.

Vinification and complete tracking

Vinification and complete tracking

- Vinification of our harvest under the control of 2 Oenologists, 1 Quality manager and our own Laboratory.
- Certification BRC Global Standards, attests the respect of safety and quality regulations at winery for the harvest, vinification and bottling on the HACCP basis.
- 9 pneumatic "self-thinking" presses with a whole pressing capacity of 1 280 hl. These presses enable a quick processing of the grapes in an air-protected environment.
- Average annual volume of 30 000 hectoliters.
- 180 tanks and casks for a total storage capacity of around 50 000 hectoliters.
- Fermenter tanks temperature controlled.
- Tangential filtering: (cross-flow) environmentally friendly, no loss of wine and respectful of the organoleptic characteristics of the wine filtered.
- Tracking software of the plots and strict control of the yield from the vineyards
- Qualitative sorting of the grapes based on the potential alcohol degree recorded as well as photographic analysis of the harvested grapes.
- 2 reception desks during harvesting time enables us to make 9 daily selections of grapes according ti their quality level

Bottling

Bottling

- Automated bottling line completely sterile bottling at a rate of 9000 bottles per hours under controlled atmosphere to preserve the original quality of the
wine, and first quality corking.
- Automatic palletising and cartoning 

Storage

Storage

- Ageing cellar of over 2 million bottles located 6 meters underground level with natural air conditioning encircled by a phreatic layer providing perfect hygrometry and ideal temperature 13° to 16° C.
- Shipping Warehouse with a storage capacity of more than one million bottles.
- Air conditioned Cellar of 2200 m2 for the storage and the elaboration of the AOC Crémant d’Alsace. This sparkling wine is elaborated with the traditional method including a second fermentation in the bottle. Maturation of 15 month on lath minimum and riddling: 20 gyropallets/automatic riddling racks..
- Yearly production : 3.8 millions of bouteilles.

Specificities of the cellar

Specificities of the cellar "Jean Geiler"

- A welcoming tasting room where many french and foreign visitors enjoy freely the tasting of all the Appellations Alsace: varietal, terroir wines and sparkling Crémant d’Alsace.
- the « winstub » a tasting aera specially dedicated to the groups’tastings or either « wine & Food» or other tasting events.
- the conference room « les Terrasses » with its view on the vineyards
- the vine-grower museum, witnesses all the evolution concerning the work and tools used by the vine-growers in the vineyards since the end of the XIXth century.
- This Museum is seen from the tasting room and offers a beautiful view of 2 monumental oak casks: among which the biggest and only one oak cask still in use in Europe (constructed in 1880), with 4,5m long and 4,2m wide, and a storage capacity of 47 200 bottles !

Press book

Press book

The quality of Jean Geiler Wines and Crémants of Alsace is judged and rewarded each year at many different wine competitions and by specialised wine writers, not only in France : Concours Général de Paris, Guide Hachette des Vins de France, La Revue des Vins de France, Decanter, Vinalies Internationales …