Welcome, bienvenue, willkommen... We are a wine grower family of Alsace, engaged sind 1990 in organic and biodynamic way of life. Here you will find some fresh new of the estate (whats new in vineyards, cellars, wines, winetours) but also some ideas to discover Alsace and close region in a more sustainable way. Your discoveries and comments are very welcome.
Klur dans le Gault et Millau 2011
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Une belle palette de vins d'Alsace retenus dans le dernier GaultMillau dont le Gentil et le Voyou de Katz, notés 13. "Voici un "gentil" très complexe et racé. On apprécie sa définition élégante, tout comme sa fraîcheur de bouche. A savourer sur la jeunesse de son expression." et "C'est un voyou, certes, mais aimable et distingué. Avec plus de vivacité que le "gentil", il invite à découvrir un ballet de notes de fruits blancs, tout comme une belle fraîcheur."D'autres vins ont été notés 14 et plus, lire la suite
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Les DNA titrent sur une page: "hospitalité biodynamique". Il y est question de bioconstruction, de viticulture biodynamique et d'écotourisme au Vignoble Klur à Katzenthal qui propose aux visiteurs des ateliers du vin, de découverte, de dégustation et des séjours bien être. L'idée étant d'inciter les alsaciens à redécouvrir leur région. D'ailleurs un circuit pédestre autour du village est proposé par la journaliste Simone Wehrung et pour ceux qui auraient peur de se perdre ils peuvent passer à cave nous leur indiquerons le chemin. Les "ateliers à la carte" de Clarisse Zenner ont particulièrement retenus l'attention puisque le lien entre produit du terroir, vin et savoir-faire mais de façon très originale est une manière sympathique de replonger dans ses racines. On vous attend
Clarisse Zenner et ses "potions"
tourisme durable à Katzenthal
Le sentier au départ du village, par le grand cru Sommerberg, vous passez à coté de la cave, puis au dessus le Niedermorschwihr, le rocher du Corbeau, le Galtz, retour par le grand cru Wineck Schlossberg et le chateau fort du Wineck
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Dans tout amateur de vin, il y a donc un buveur d'eau qui s'ignore!" "Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized." Andre Simon Vins Blancs Gentil de Katz2007 -Organic Domaine Klur, Alsace • Pinot Gris2005 -Organic Vieilles Vignes, Klur Alsace •
Restaurant français, le CHAT NOIR
4907 Wisconsin Av. Washington DC 20016
tél 202 244 2044
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Il n'y eut pas toujours que des vins de cépages en Alsace...il fut un temps où l'on assemblait différents raisins pour en faire des Zwicker, Edelzwicker, Gentil. Ce dernier correspondait au dernier passage dans les vignes, à un moment où les cépages nobles (cliquez sur suite)
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L'Elisabeth est un voilier hollandais de type Gagenaar construit en 1908 et il est arrivé au port de Colmar grâce à Dominique et François Garotte qui habitent sur place. Un bateau-d'hôtes qui propose de vous promener sur l'eau durant votre séjour...de Colmar au Rhin et retour ! magique. Tentez l'aventure, ou si vous préférez rester à quai et visiter Colmar, le centre ville n'est pas loin. Et si vous séjournez déjà en Alsace, inscrivez vous pour une journée promenade avec déjeuner à bord. Une découverte de l'Alsace tout en lenteur et au fil de l'eau qui se rajoute à celle des Canoe du Ried, les barques plates du batelier du Ried , et pourquoi pas avec une nuit en tipi ?
Large holiday house: a family dream
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During this sommer the Blue House in Riquewihr is booked for short stays for family come together. Perfect location if you don't want to drive too far, stay next to an airport or train connexion, take grand'ma, grand'pa, children, grand'children and share this large holiday house together. All facilities nearby for different generations and a lot to see and visit ! "Thanks a lot for this stay at the Maison Bleue, ist was wonderfull, the house is very beautifull and perfect for 16 people. Thanks for the welcome gift, we also took a few bottles in the wine cellar and take some pinot noir home" wrote the Wiczinski Family this morning.
During this time the Family Luthi from Switzerland stayed at the pond house and appreciate the nature and the quietness of this place. Thanks for this picture ! "we had the most peacefull holidays of our life ! quietness and climate where perfect, hikking and dreaming, our dogs loved also a lot. Perhaps you should tell to your visitors that the 2 houses are not really independant, we didn't know about it. The stay was wonderfull and we certainly will come back to this region another time".
You are right, the houses are built "back to back" but the private outdoors are separate and Chez Marie is only occupied in july and august. Thanks for this and see you soon.
At the back of the valley next to the village we have saules trees longing the stream. We use the dried and crushed bark, about 50 grammes of bark infused for 20 minutes in 5 litres of very hot water. Diluted at the 10th then added (sometimes mixed with nettles) in the pulverising recipient sometimes with copper.
This mixture is used in the prevention of mildew. It should be harvested in the spring before the leaves come out. It has been kown for ages due to its saliciyclic acid (which is the base of aspirin).
A very hot afternoon for this walk from the wine estate in the village to the Wineck Schlossberg Grand Cru hill... Gérard Verret from Jardin Gourmand the specialist of wild plants and their transformation into tastefull dishes, gave a lot of informations about wild plants to the group. It was not easy to find some "eatable" plants in this summer begining because a few plants where still to old and not tasty at all. Wild carotts, plantain and this very strange 'Eglantier des Vignes" discovered by Gérard....read more.
Absolutely to discover at Wintzfelden near Soulzmatt. The erotic, the wriggly, the defended fruit, the lazy, the beauty, or even the beast ... don't be wary- these are the names of the jams and jellies made by Clarisse Zenner...to be eaten by spoon or dolloped on the skin to be delicately licked off? it's up to you .....contact at 0389476182 or
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Herb and spices garden during your holiday
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Stay at Klur wine-estate in Katzenthal and enjoy the small garden with many herbs and spices, which is especially created for you, savory, mint, basilic, willow, laurel, sage, and many others... Here, the ancient roses have overrunned the parsley and the thyme... but perhaps will they soon be on your table ? In a vase or perfuming the fresh water you just have brought from our Grander fountain ? We also have planned to build a square vegetable garden next year with the help of Marie Nageleisen (she has written a very interesting book), we will talk about it later....
The topo-guides are here !! Stay at Klur wine-estate and discover the area on foot or on bicycle with the help of our topo-guides : "enjoy the landscapes" , and this stork will go with you through the hills and the vignes and will give you the secrets about:
- the grands crus and the winegrower know-how
- the stones and mens from the nearly villages
- the terroirs: why are the vignes here and not there ?
- the village names in thal, wihr and heim , and their stories...
These round tours (10, 20 or 30 km) permit to you to discover a part of the alsacian vineyard in a convivial way. 3 days stay including the accomodation, a basket with organic products from local farmers, the bicycles, the topoguide, the wellness rom and also a wine-tasting of alsacian wines. Book on-line here.
Early in the morning, it is a leave day in the sowing calendar (calendrier des semis),the 501 biodynamic preparation was ready to be sprayed on the foliage of the half of our parcels, 4 grammes of silicium in 35 litres of rain water per hectare, dynamised for one hour, spray for 5 to 8 hours. The soil work goes on with the plow or the hand cultivator, the vegetation is doing well and quickly. The roof of the cellar is mauve this month: chive flowers, thyme, sage, and many new flowers... as if they had passed the word around for the colour...We have done the first bottling 15 days ago, a fruit day, soft filtering on diatom (grinded shellfish).
Here, you can try the organic mattress and especially the ergonomic garden bench! Klur wine-estate has just acquired this armchair to be relaxed, made in wood from local forests and which doesn't need to be treated. You can sit on it alone, with one or two personn and look at the sky, at the the top of the trees...Placed in our birds garden, next to the swing and to the hammock, you will enjoy it during your stay, dayly or nightly, and you won't forget your journey in Alsace. And why not try to make one yourself ? Come and test it!
Last week, 8 "gourmet" were reunited in order to learn to cook the famous alsacian kougelhopf with Clarisse Zenner!! But not any how: at first, everything was organic: yeast, flour, butter... and it was a good occasion to talk about the rising dough, the best temperature, place, day, like the wine fermentation... it was baked in an ancient mould which was used many of times before, and then, Clarisse has brought different unusual ingredients which were used or not, it depended of the desire of each one, chutney have also be baked while the dough was rised, also a wine -tasting...click on more.
After a Saint-Médard wine-tasting which combines our wines and the terroirs expression, it's difficult to take the wheel...but we have our grape-picker room with the small courtyard which is always available for our guests. The discover of organic wines was been completed with organic products from farmers from the Kaysersberg valley. This family from Ludwigsburg, and his friends, in Alsace for a few days, have enjoyed it, and a taxi has taken them back to their hotel. Think of it for your next jaunt:"Uns und unseren Freunden hat es super gut gefallen bei Ihnen. Die Weinprobe mit wirklich toll, sehr guten Weinen in lockerer Atmosphäre war einfach perfekt. Der gemütliche Garten und das tolle Wetter haben ebenso dazu beigetragen. Wir acht hatten wirklich sehr viel Spaß! Bitte weiter so!!! Beste Grüße auch an Clarisse aus. Ihr Buffet war sehr lecker und wir hatten einen gemütlichen Abend! Viele Grüße aus Ludwigsburg nach Katzenthal"
Best place to stay in Alsace ? the travellers are deciding. Some of you give us notes on Trip Advisor, thanks for this feed back and for you suggestions, hope to see you back soon
It's at Klur on the 24th of April 2010 ! Come and share with us this meeting around Wine and Words on the theme of the biodiversity. You can come for a while or all along the day, the entrance is free but you have to reserve for the lunch before the 20th of April. Besides the animations at set time, you will find: a reading lounge, a books dedication by the authors, wine-books exchange: you come with yours and you change them with others.... What else to spread ideas... Click on more to get the planning.
We'd like to wish you a happy Easter and invite you to enjoy the first days of spring to taste all this tasty herbs which you can find in the nature now and which clean your organism at the end of this winter.Think of nettle, sorrel, dandelion, bear's garlic soon, light herb teas, wood energy.
Yesterday, we were pleased to welcome the family Schwab, gathered at the Blue House with parents, grantparents, for a a wine tasting, followed with an organic buffet, made by Clarisse Zenner des Oiseaux Rares. If you feel lilke tasting it, or if you are organizing a journey at Klur, click on "More"
The german review Weinwelt has tasted and dedicated the "best Alsace wines" in the april-May 2010 edition, "they are back". A nice recommandation for the aera, its diversity, its gastronomy and its wineyards. "God bless Alsace". Concerning the wines, the organic one were honoured but also the wine grower work and the terroir: "Riesling, pinot blanc, pinot gris, couldn't we think they are wine like in Germany? Here is the difference. The alsatian wines from this variety of grappe are inimitable and it's also true for the organic label, they are all individualist.
The Klur wine-estate has presented a crémant without sulfite and also a gewurztraminer to the wine-tasting. They get the following marks: "Gewurztraminer Klur 2007. A gewurztraminer doesnt' have to be full and sweet, a nose of honey, lemon, white flowers and the spices wake up, fresh and original. Mark 86. The crémant without sulfite, best mark of its category (89): a surprising champagne nose, with brioche, apple taste, an elegant fruit, fresh like a green apple, lemon taste, mineral and very strong".
A group of winegrowers and friends of winegrowers from Switzerland, next to the lake of Zurich, went on a trip in Alsace. They could taste the flavours and the talent of Clarisse Zenner, les Oiseaux Rares. Share this moment with photos and commentaries... click on "More"...
Une belle palette de vins d'Alsace retenus dans le dernier 
tourisme durable à Katzenthal
Le sentier au départ du village, par le grand cru Sommerberg, vous passez à coté de la cave, puis au dessus le Niedermorschwihr, le rocher du Corbeau, le Galtz, retour par le grand cru Wineck Schlossberg et le chateau fort du Wineck
Dans tout amateur de vin, il y a donc un buveur d'eau qui s'ignore!"
est un voilier hollandais de type Gagenaar construit en 1908 et il est arrivé au port de Colmar grâce à Dominique et François Garotte qui habitent sur place. Un bateau-d'hôtes qui propose de vous promener sur l'eau durant votre séjour...de Colmar au Rhin et retour ! magique. Tentez l'aventure, ou si vous préférez rester à quai et visiter Colmar, le centre ville n'est pas loin. Et si vous séjournez déjà en Alsace, inscrivez vous pour une journée promenade avec déjeuner à bord. Une découverte de l'Alsace tout en lenteur et au fil de l'eau qui se rajoute à celle des 
During this sommer the Blue House in Riquewihr is booked for short stays for family come together. Perfect location if you don't want to drive too far, stay next to an airport or train connexion, take grand'ma, grand'pa, children, grand'children and share this large holiday house together. All facilities nearby for different generations and a lot to see and visit ! "Thanks a lot for this stay at the Maison Bleue, ist was wonderfull, the house is very beautifull and perfect for 16 people. Thanks for the welcome gift, we also took a few bottles in the wine cellar and take some pinot noir home" wrote the Wiczinski Family this morning. 
Stay at Klur wine-estate 
The topo-guides are here !! Stay at 
Best place to stay in Alsace ? the travellers are deciding. Some of you give us notes on 
We'd like to wish you a happy Easter and invite you to enjoy the first days of spring to taste all this tasty herbs which you can find in the nature now and which clean your organism at the end of this winter.Think of nettle, sorrel, dandelion, bear's garlic soon, light herb teas, wood energy.
