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One consequence of the communications revolution is that news travels so fast. Thus it was only three hours after Jeanny/Johnny Hugel, 84, passed away last night, with his wife Simone... |
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Catherine Faller, who regularly shows her latest wines at the end of the Justerini & Brooks annual London burgundy tasting, which is a pretty thankless position, talks about recent vintages in... |
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I have been delightfully catching up on some of the 2007 whites that I have not so far reported on in this extensive survey of German 2007s and Alsace 2007s . I’m particularly glad to... |
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Restaurant de la Gare in the village of Guewenheim just west of Mulhouse in southern Alsace and 50 kilometres from Basel and the borders of France, Germany and Switzerland will long stay in my... |
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Attentive readers of my recent Alsace 2007 tasting notes will have noticed that I was rather worried about how relatively poorly the Zind-Humbrecht wines showed. Since I tried to visit... |
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In my recent coverage of Alsace’s 2007s, both the tasting notes and the overview, I promised I’d publish tasting notes on a vertical of the two great Rieslings from the house of Trimbach.... |
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See also my tasting notes on 169 Alsace 2007s. It is perhaps not surprising that French wine producers have been much slower to embrace screwcaps as an alternative stopper to natural... |
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Never let it be said that I ignore the wishes of purple pagers. Three months ago Mark Prust of Wales asked here on the old forum why there weren't more tasting notes on Alsace wines. Voila!... |
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Colmar in landlocked Alsace in the east of France seemed the ideal location to put to rest one of the longest running myths in the restaurant world: that one should avoid ordering fish in a... |
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While American wine writer Dan Berger and the US-based International Riesling Foundation try to draw up a Riesling Taste Scale to give some guide to sweetness on labels, as reported here... |
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In a nutshell : Terribly useful, often overlooked, soft, smoky whites. Main grapes : Riesling, Gewürztraminer, Pinot Blanc, Pinot Gris, Sylvaner, Muscat (white). Alsace is... |
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2007 Very good vintage, even earlier than 2003, with extremely healthy, ripe grapes. 2006 Firm wines slightly lacking flesh. 2005 Pure, expressive, well balanced wines... |
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Any wine lover within striking distance of Basel or Alsace should think seriously about a trip to the Restaurant de la Gare in the tiny village of Guewenheim just west of Mulhouse and about 40... |
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Find Turckheim Gewurz Find Zonte’s 2006s While Tesco substantially revamps its wine range (see Top ten whites from your new, soaraway Tesco and... |
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