I have always had a soft spot for Alsace wine, and my first visit to the region in 2010 cemented that affection. However, keeping that affection going has not been the easiest task in the UK....

The most recent tasting of the Royal Household Wine Committee in the cellars of Buckingham Palace was devoted to Alsace, and was one of the most enjoyable I can remember. These were wines...

From €12.90, £14.95, NZ$35, AU$29 Find this wine Putting together my collections of the finest wines of the year to be published over the next four Saturdays has been a horribly...

Alsace wine producers are feeling the pressure of competition from Germany's remodelled Rieslings and accordingly organised La Journée du Riesling, a big showing of many of the region's...

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...

2012 went well for the Alsatians. Volumes were roughly average, and quality was very pleasing, thanks to a warm, steady August and a cool, dry September that kept vineyards disease-free. The...