Yves Lehmann

The Path

At Lehmann Distillery in Obernai, France, Yves Lehmann has held the head and director role since 1982, a span that reads less like a title than an assumption of continuity. In a family house, that kind of tenure keeps the line of production intact while letting the range expand without severing its origin.

The Work Today

Production at Obernai is direct and legible: 200 to 400 tons a year. Yves Lehmann frames the work in the terms distillers recognize—limits, repetition, and scale that can be counted. The family range tells the same story in another register: what once centered on traditional eaux-de-vie has grown to more than 120 products, without dropping the older names that anchored it.

Signature

Marc d'Alsace Gewurztraminer and Alsatian and French whiskies sit under Yves Lehmann’s name as signature wines, showing how the house moves between local fruit spirit tradition and whisky. The range reflects a distillery that has widened its scope while keeping its place-based identity readable in the glass.

In Their Words “From my father's time, the range was limited to traditional eaux-de-vie, namely Poire Williams, Alsatian Raspberry, Wild Raspberry, Quetsche, Mirabelle... Today, we have more than 120 products in our range.” “Protecting and continuing this family tradition is my commitment to the future.”

Acclaim

Yves Lehmann’s honors include the Entreprise du Patrimoine Vivant (EPV) label (2012).