Which grapes go into which Deiss Alsace?
3 Oct 2005 by JR
Rodrigo Mainardi , Brazil :   I couldn’t find anywhere the grape varieties used in each of Marcel Deiss’s blended wines. Would you have any clue? Perhaps only Tom Stevenson knows!   me: Mais non . We all know now, thanks to Charles Lea of Lea & Sandeman shops around London which have been selling Deiss’s estimable wines for ages. [Note to those who may not have come across current Deiss incumbent Jean-Michel Deiss: he’s the one who believes that it is important to bottle terroir and, incidentally, those varieties which express it best, rather than to sell wines by variety. I congratulate him heartily but it can...

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