Wine Tasting : Alsace - Discovering the Great Whites
Wines from Alsace: Discovering the Great Whites
The second part of our series entitled "A Contemporary Perspective of the « querelle des vins »" will be dedicated to wines from Alsace.
Speaker
Eric Sautedé
WSET Advanced Certificate L3
Wine in Alsace is white, no doubt about that: whites make 90% of the production and clearly the overriding reputation
of the place, a standing fully embraced by the official collective gathering local winemakers, the CIVA,
that advertises wines from Alsace as “Les Grands Blancs”, literally the “great
whites”.
And if Alsace is home to 53 AOCs—the generic Alsace born in 1962, the fast-rising Crémant d’Alsace created in 1976 and the 51 superb “Alsace Grands Crus” established in three phases since 1975—the region is well-known because of its white grape varieties (Riesling, Sylvaner or Gewürztraminer) and localities, especially the ones of its Grands Crus, whose names are a reminder of the turbulent history of this north-east corner of France and the proximity of German cultural heritage.
Other Parts of the Series: