Not everybody likes Alsatian wine. Good. That means more of it for me. The slim, green adolescent bottles with sloping shoulders and no hips are distinguished by pollen-yellow labels, often ...

The 4 Noble Alsace Grape Varieties. For an Alsace Wine to earn the title of Grand Cru, ... Closeup detail of a glass of Alsatian Reisling white wine at a romantic restaurant dinner. Shallow ...

In cold weather, pour a glass of Alsace. November 27, 2012 More than 12 years ago. By Dave McIntyre. We tend to think of wine like fashion: ... In other words, think Alsace.

Delicious, reasonably priced red wines typically do not spring to mind when considering France’s lovely wine growing region of Alsace. Yet with over 10% of production now coming from red-skinned ...

Julien Dopff pioneered sparkling wine-making in Alsace, after seeing and tasting champagne at the 1900 Paris Exposition and learning the secondary fermentation method in Épernay.

After tasting (think eight half-glasses of wine before noon) and touring the cellar, I learned that Clos St. Landelin is home to one of the oldest wine presses in France, dating back to the 1300s.

THE big problem with the famously picturesque Alsace Wine Route in eastern France, says Jean-Louis Meyer as he put down his glass of white wine, is that there are so many vineyards where you can stop ...

The Alsace Wine Route is celebrating its 70th anniversary. Situated in eastern France, it draws tens of thousands of tourists every year. (Photo by PATRICK HERTZOG / AFP) The big problem with the ...