40% Pinot Gris, 35% Muscat, 25% Riesling

Food pairings: A cheese soufflé, baked fish with grilled vegetables, or Chinese, Indian and Thai dishes with a little spice.

Winemaking: Unusually for Boxler, who makes almost all of his roughly thirty cuvées from a single grape, the Edelzwicker is a blend, and it often includes fruit from his grand cru parcels. As Jean Boxler puts it, 'To find the right balance for the Edelzwicker Réserve, I cannot hesitate to steal from my more prestigious cuvées.' Like all the domaine's wines, it is vinified and aged in old foudres in a small cellar beneath the family home.

Vineyards and terroir: The family's vines surround the village of Niedermorschwihr in the Haut-Rhin, below the steep granite hillside of the Sommerberg grand cru, which ends at Jean Boxler's driveway. The soils for this wine are granite and alluvium, and the vineyards are farmed organically.

Family and history: The first Jean Boxler arrived in Niedermorschwihr from Switzerland in 1673. After World War II, Albert Boxler came back from Montana in time to harvest the 1946 crop and became the first of the family to bottle and sell its wine under the family name; the bottles still wear the label his cousin drew in 1946. Albert's son Jean-Marc continued for several decades before handing over to his son Jean in 1996.

In the pictures: Jean Boxler in the cellar.