🎇 The most underrated grape in the world...??? 🎇
08.06.2026
2024 Wunsch & Mann Pinot Blanc
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Wunsch et Mann Pinot Blanc
Wunsch and Mann planted their flag in 1948, the same year the Marshall Plan started rebuilding Europe. Their vines were damaged and the land was depleted, but two families decided to get to work anyway. Four generations later, this organic Pinot Blanc from Wettolsheim is what that stubbornness looks like: floral, crisp, and fresh in the way that only Alsace seems to pull off.
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Hear me out.
Let me make the case for the most underrated white wine grape in the world.
Pinot Blanc gets no respect. It has no famous appellation of its own, no cult producer, no Instagram moment. In Alsace it's the workhorse: the wine the growers actually drink at lunch, the base of most Crémant, the bottle on the table at every winstub in Colmar. Nobody writes about it because nobody has figured out how to make it expensive.
That is the beauty of this wonderful grape.
Here's what Pinot Blanc actually gives you. Dry. A little white peach. A little almond and white flower. Real texture in the middle, more body than Sauvignon Blanc but nothing like the weight of an oaked Chardonnay. No oak at all, in fact. It's the wine you open when you don't want to think, and then it turns out to be better than you expected. It goes with everything: chicken, pork, shellfish, cheese boards, a Thursday.
Now, the producer.
The Mann family has been farming vines in Wettolsheim since 1793. George Washington was in his first term 😂
The winery as it exists today was founded in 1948, when Joseph Wunsch and Joseph Mann went into business together. Wunsch died in 1970 and Mann took over the whole operation, and the Mann family has run every step of it since: growing, pressing, fermenting, aging, bottling, all of it in their own cellars in Wettolsheim. Today it's the third and fourth generations working side by side.
Wettolsheim sits just outside Colmar in the heart of the Haut-Rhin, which is the good half of Alsace. The estate farms about twenty hectares across the region, and here is the kicker: those holdings include parcels in three Grands Crus, Steingrubler, Hengst, and Pfersigberg. Hengst in particular is one of the most celebrated sites in all of Alsace.
And in 2008 they converted the entire vineyard to certified organic farming, if you're into things like that.
Why this wine in particular?
Well, we found these guys at the largest wine trade show in France, and really stumbled on to them when we saw the packaging at a random marketing station. We then sought them out and after one taste...we were hooked.
This lovely bottle is the exact opposite of a wine that needs an occasion.
A great Alsace Pinot Blanc is one of the most useful bottles you can have in the house. It is bone dry but never austere. It has enough body to stand up to real food and enough acid to keep you coming back to the glass. It is not trying to impress anyone, which is precisely why it works.
Serve it cold. Pour it for people who say they don't like white wine. Watch the fireworks 😎.
I know what I am drinking tonight!