Grapes: Co-planted (mostly) riesling, with all the Pinots, and Gewurztraminer (sweet Auslese-like)

95 pts Wine Advocate
Drinking Window 2025 - 2065
The 2020 Grand Cru Schoenenbourg is deep, precise and intense yet also refined and saline on the complex yet pure nose that shows bitter orange as well as ripe apricot (kernel) and black tea aromas. Full-bodied, generously rich yet refined on the palate, provided with remarkably fine tannins and a sustainable salinity, this is a powerful, deep, complex and structured yet elegant and persistently long Schoenenbourg that is beautifully balanced and seriously long. 14% stated alcohol with 15.7 grams per liter of residual sugar. Natural cork. Tasted at the domaine in April 2024.

95 pts Vinous
Drinking Window 2025 - 2060
The 2020 Schoenenbourg Grand Cru is made from two parcels, one of Riesling and one of an ancient field blend, the parcel which inspired Jean-Michel Deiss to plant other field blends. The vines root in the heavy marls atop gypsum subsoil. The nose is shy, with only subtle hints of citrus pith and peel, but more air accentuates aromatic citrus notions. The palate has lovely peach skin bitterness and the texture of citrus pith but also a gentle, serene peachy sweetness. Yet the finish is more about soil than fruit. The more air it gets, the more citrus unfolds. (Sweet) - By Anne Krebiehl MW on February 2023

Riesling and a field-blending of all the Alsatian grapes (sweet in this vintage as is usually the case)
The SCHOENENBOURG hill, famous since the Middle Ages, is the brightest gem of all the RIQUEWIHR vineyards. This site has been the birthplace of all the great wines of this town and is the reason for Riquewihr’s almost universal renown. It has a very specific topography, facing south, located at a valley entrance with a steep slope and his geology formed of Keuper marl which is a rough mixture of indescent and gypsum marls covered by laryers of Vosgian sandstone. The combination of a light, airy, friable topsoil on a clay based, fertile substratum with good water retention properties, accounts for the fact that the personality of the Schoenenbourg wines is dominated more by their native soil than by their variety. Because of the proximity to the Vosgian Fault, the micro-climate of Schoenenbourg is quite cold, late, suited to a slow, difficult maturing of grapes and the frequent development of Noble Rot.