Domaines Schlumberger

At Domaines Schlumberger, only what grows on the estate is pressed.

With 4 Grand Cru sites and 140 hectares of vineyards around the small Alsatian town of Guebwiller, the Schlumberger family has everything in hand to vinify first-class wine from their grapes. This makes Domaines Schlumberger one of the largest vineyard owners in Alsace, producing an equally large diversity of wines.

Sun, Vosges, wine from Schlumberger

The mighty vineyard, criss-crossed with terraces and crumbling sandstone walls, contains the 4 Grand Cru sites Kitterlé, Saering, Kessler and Spiegel. They account for about half of the vineyard area of Domaines Schlumberger. In particular, Kitterlé is capable of producing extremely opulent wines, as you can discover for example with the Pinot Gris Grand Cru Kitterlé or the Riesling Grand Cru Kitterlé. The sun shines here long and warm. The entire vineyard consists largely of sandstone – a meagre yet varied soil. Due to the rather poor soil, yields are naturally reduced. All the better when one is allowed to pick the various grape varieties on slopes of up to 50%.

Grape variety profile of Domaines Schlumberger

Schlumberger wines are mostly white wines, with a few splashes of red. They are vinified both as single-varietal wines and also offered as cuvées from various single sites.

• Riesling
• Pinot Gris
• Gewürztraminer
• Silvaner
• Pinot Blanc
• Muscat
• Pinot Noir

The history of Domaines Schlumberger

The Schlumbergers are a long-established family of winegrowers, but centuries ago they were primarily textile manufacturers. After the properties of the church and monasteries passed into private hands in the course of the French Revolution, Nicolas Schlumberger seized the opportunity and bought, alongside a textile factory, a few hectares of vineyards. This was the beginning of Domaines Schlumberger.

With the phylloxera infestation came an unusual rise for the estate. While most winegrowers turned their backs on viticulture, Ernest Schlumberger bought the newly available vineyard land, planted new vines and built the now distinctive stone terraces.

The recent past of Domaines Schlumberger has been shaped by forward-looking modernisation of the estate. Old vines were removed, new ones planted and, since the 2000s, the cellar and equipment have been brought up to the latest state of the art.

Today, Séverine and Thomas Schlumberger, in the 7th generation, are at the head of the Alsatian estate, with Alain Freyburger as cellar master at their side.

Domaines Schlumberger wines

“Every vintage, every single wine, is a birth,” philosophises Alain Freyburger in his modern cellar with all kinds of gleaming equipment. Here, the grapes are delivered within 2 hours of harvest and gently pressed. The wine should express itself, should clearly and directly reflect the terroir. For this, the cellar master has 120 oak barrels and 80 stainless steel tanks at his disposal, which allow the separation of the numerous single sites and parcels. After months of maturation, the wines from Domaines Schlumberger express themselves with all the strengths of the Vosges, sun-drenched terraces and varietal-typical aromas. Whether Grand Cru wines, noble sweet cuvées or traditional white wines such as the Princes Abbés wine line, a homage to the abbey that was already pressing wine in Guebwiller 1,000 years ago – Domaines Schlumberger brings the best wines from Alsace into circulation. And VINELLO brings them to your home.