The true founder, Aimé STENTZ (1928-1979) and his wife Angèle launched an expansion program, by having the estate spread on 12 hectares. In the Sixties, right in the middle of a viticultural crisis, they decided to switch to estate-bottling and started building up a customers' list. The range of wines also had to develop : Riesling was added on the wine list in 1964, Pinot Noir in 1967 and Pinot Gris in 1974.
In 1975 Aimé Stentz was able to offer his customers the full range of Alsace wines.
Since 1979, Aimé's sons Etienne and Louis oversee the estate.
• 1981 : production of our first Crémant (sparkling wine), which is lawfully allowed since 1976
• 1983 : first production of "Vendanges Tardives" (late harvest wines)
• 1985 : opening towards international markets
• 1986 : first "Sélection de Grains Nobles" production (nobly-rotted sweet wines) and thermic-regulation installing in the cellar
• 1989 : first pneumatic wine press and first production of « Rouge d'Alsace » (red Alsatian wine) harvested in the Hengst vineyard
• 1994 : first « Cuvée du Vicus Romain » Pinot Gris, 25 years after this historic site has been found
• 2001 : new bottling and storing cellar inaugurated
• 2003 : a second pneumatic press wine is purchased and installed. All grapes are now processed in a 4 to 8 hours smooth progressive press-time
• 2004 : no more chemicals are used to remove weeds in our vineyards
• 2007 : first « Cuvée Amatus 2003 ».
Since August, the whole estate has been moving over bio-agriculture
• 2010 : Ecocert label for organic wine |
Right at the heart of Alsace, on a 14,5-hectare family estate, we set great value on tradition as well as progress, thus respecting the natural heritage transmitted by our elders.
