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Rest of France assemblage

Thursday 4 August 2016
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See this guide to our assemblages

Jancis writes This collection of 118 tasting notes is inevitably a bit of a ragbag, including all our tasting notes on still French wines grown everywhere other than Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne, Languedoc-Roussillon and the Loire. (Most of our sparkling and rosé tasting notes have their own assemblage.) This means that we have groups headed Alsace, Beaujolais, Savoie and Jura, Provence and Corsica, South West France and Elsewhere.

The biggest group is of Alsace whites, including the distinctly superior wines served at the Auberge de l’Ill dinner I mention in the tasting article An...

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