From 50-year-old vines in the Westhofen premier cru Steingrube and vinified in 600-liter halbstücks until March this year, the 2021 Weisser Burgunder Réserve opens with a clear and polished, very elegant and finely mineral or chalky bouquet with noble sur lies aromas. Elegant and refined on the palate, this is an enormously saline and finessed as well as tensioned Pinot Blanc with elegant flow and a very nice, intense and finely aromatic but also structural finish. The wine is tight, dense, complex, long and intense and a beautiful wine to be served during dinner. 13% stated alcohol. Natural cork. Tasted at the domaine in July 2023.

From the Steingrube and aged in 600-liter halbstücks, the 2020 Weisser Burgunder Réserve was whole-cluster pressed and offers a pure, refined and elegant nose with clear and bright fruit intertwined with coolish flinty notes of crushed stones. Round and charming on the palate, this is a textural Pinot Blanc with lush fruit and a fine, saline and stimulating bitter finish. It's an excellent white to have with food. 13% stated alcohol. Natural cork. Tasted at the domaine in August 2022.

The 2018 Weisser Burgunder Reserve is intense and clear but quite oaky on the intense and fruity nose. Full-bodied, rich and intensely fruity on the palate, this is an irritating international type of Pinot that doesn't give me a kick at all. Well done but stylistically boring, though with a seemingly refreshing touch of Sauvignon Blanc (which is my personal impression, but I'm pretty sure that's not a reality). Tasted from AP 2120 in April 2020.

The 2015 Weisser Burgunder Reserve will be kept on the full lees (in three Halbstück vats of 600 liters) until the 2016 harvest and will be aged on the fine lees until spring 2017. There was no malolactic and no battonage since January, though: "We want to show the chalky origin and a more Burgundian style to separate the Pinot Blanc Reserve from Riesling GGs, but we do not want fatness," Wittmann explains. The grapes are sourced in the Steingrube, which is a site next to the Morstein. It is a very large site, but very heterogeneous soils. This wine comes from higher plots in calcareous soils (20% active chalk). The nose is very different compared to the regular Pinot Blanc; it shows ripe yellow fruit with tropical flavors intermixed with a certain sweetness and creaminess from the sur-lie aging in the slightly toasted barrels. A very attractive nose that is clear, deep and aromatic. Full-bodied, round and intense on the palate, this dense and complex, perfectly balanced Pinot reveals a long, intense finish with lingering salty flavors. It is highly elegant and fresh, perfectly structured and reveals great tension.

The 2014 Weisser Burgunder Reserve is clear, fresh and elegant on the focused nose with its ripe pip fruit, chalk and lemon aromas. On the palate, this is a very elegant, intense and creamy textured wine with finesse, but also power and a certain sweetness in the finish. It does not stimulate me as much as the perfect 2015, since I feel the alcohol and more sweetness in the aftertaste. The 2015 was picked a little bit earlier to improve the freshness and this was the right decision.