Alsace’s wines defy its turbulent history

Alsace’s wines defy its turbulent history

The taste of wine is the taste of fermented grape juice: diverse, distracting, shockingly beautiful. And there’s more.  Wine’s flavours, famously, can convey origin with great precision, though the mechanisms at play resist easy definition. Behind that, underwriting both our understanding of wine regions and the ability of those working in them to prevail on the market, lies history. History is wine’s forgotten ingredient. Historical trauma may …

Summer arrives, and the Tour of the terroirs also, for our greatest pleasure. Kesako ? On 8 different dates, along the Wine Route, almost 100 passionate winemakers come to make us taste their nuggets, in the middle of their vineyards. We detail all this.