Richard also tasted a variety of Alsace wines presented by the Conseil Interprofessionnel des Vins d'Alsace in Colmar. These tasting notes were taken during visits to 10 different producers...

From £22, £49.98, €31.95. Find this wine Persuading readers of this site to drink Riesling shouldn’t be a problem. Especially in Riesling week , no less. We are surely...

For over 200 tasting notes on every conceivable style and variety of Alsace wines, see Alsace - 10 top producers and Alsatian allsorts . When is a Pinot Blanc not a Pinot Blanc? When it’s...

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...

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...

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...

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!...

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...

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...

In a nutshell : Terribly useful, often overlooked, soft, smoky whites. Main grapes : Riesling, Gewürztraminer, Pinot Blanc, Pinot Gris, Sylvaner, Muscat (white). Alsace...

2009 This year produced some of the most consistently healthy grapes ever in Alsace, translating into exemplary varietal character throughout the region. 2008 Challenging weather...

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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The Hugel family, based in Riquewihr, north of Colmar, has been making wine in Alsace since the mid 17th century. Now they have brought their 21st-century blog fully up to speed with an...

Many of the winegrowers of Ammerschwihr in Alsace will have thrown their hats in the air on 12 January when the 68-hectare Kaefferkopf vineyard was officially recognised as a Grand Cru. Riesling,...