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Alsace – 10 top producers

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Richard Hemming MW
Wednesday 24 August 2011
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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 in Alsace. I wrote in The trouble with Alsace that I found the wines generally reliable in quality but greatly variable in style, and indeed each producer has something different to recommend them. I have given a short introduction to each set of notes, which are ordered by producer, then by style and grape variety as follows:

- Crémant d'Alsace
- Sylvaner
- Pinot Blanc
- Riesling
- Pinot Gris
-...
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