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You have many: Pinot Gris, but rarely such beautiful ones as from Abi Duhr's vineyard. This wine is rich in flavor, pure yet fresh and mineral at the same time. It is aromatic with notes of ripe exotic fruit combined with fresh citrus acidity. Wines produced from pinot gris are distinguished by their aromatic complexity of white fruit, mushrooms, honey, vanilla and cinnamon.
Starting out on his family's wine estate, Domaine Madame Aly Duhr, Abi Duhr has now become one of the top names in Luxembourg viticulture with his own Château Pauqué. He is considered one of the forerunners in making terroir wines, where many other winemakers want to put the grape first and foremost. Abi Duhr believes, however, that a next step should be taken, toward wines with a clear terroir expression and with more depth and complexity.
From that idea, he created Clos du Paradäis in 1988, a wine in which the vineyard, rather than the grape, was at the forefront. It was the culmination of a development of several years, with many innovations in winemaking, such as the use of oak (1982) and the application of malolactic fermentation (1987). Revolutionary innovations for Luxembourg at the time. Château Pauqué counts, after a recent purchase of a hectare of beautiful vineyard in the village of Schengen, a total of 4.5 hectares of vineyards. Almost all the vines are planted on steep slopes along the Mosel, essential for the best quality. The vineyards are planted with pinot blanc, elbling, auxerrois, riesling, pinot gris and chardonnay. The vineyards can be found in the "lieux- dits" Mertert Herrenberg, Grevenmacher Fels and Paradäis, Wormeldange Nussbaum, Ehnen Bromelt, Stadtbredimus Dieffert and -Fels and Schengen Fels, the only vineyard in the Luxembourg part of the Moselle on red sandstone. In his work, Abi Duhr has been strongly influenced by the French, and especially the Burgundian way of winemaking.
