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NATURAL WINES BY CHARLES FREY
The Frey family, originally Swiss, settled in Dambach-la-Ville in Alsace in the early 1700s. The modern domaine began in 1958 with 0.75 hectares given to Charles Frey, and today the family owns 14 hectares, including vines on the granite Grand Cru Frankstein. In 1997 his son Dominique stopped using chemicals, among the first in Alsace to do so, and the story goes that Charles picked nettles for the sprays at night so the neighbours would not laugh. Dominique's sons Julien and Thiébaud now run it.
Since the 2016 vintage a neighbouring grower, Domaine Mersiol, has added grapes from the same granite soils of Dambach. Wines are made in a wooden winery built in 2010 with no air conditioning, and the old village cellar is still used for long ageing. Look out for the Riesling Granite, Pinot Blanc Eclectic, Pinot Gris Symbiose, Pinot Noir Harmonie and Crémant Extra Brut.
