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Recent Posts
- Star Wine List, a guide to wine bars and restaurants May 24, 2019
- Champagne village profile: Montreuil-aux-Lions, the westernmost of all Champagne villages April 7, 2019
- Champagne village profile: Saâcy-sur-Marne, the westernmost Champagne village on the Marne river April 4, 2019
- Some reds from Binet-Jacquet in Faguères April 1, 2019
- Champagne village profile: Nanteuil-sur-Marne on the right bank of the Marne valley March 28, 2019
- Champagne village profile: Crouttes-sur-Marne on the right bank of the Marne valley March 25, 2019
- Champagne village profile: Bézu-le-Guéry on the right bank of the Marne valley March 24, 2019
- Champagne village profile: Domptin on the right bank of the Marne valley March 23, 2019
- Champagne village profile: Villiers-Saint-Denis on the right bank of the Marne valley March 22, 2019
- Champagne village profile: Citry on the left bank of the Marne valley March 20, 2019
Upcoming posts
- Bonneau du Martray and Comte Georges de Vogüé, the 2015 vintage (tasted in 2017).
- Domaine de la Romanée Conti, the 2014 vintage (tasted in 2017).
- A visit to Goisot in Saint-Bris (in the summer of 2017).
Champagne village profiles
- After all villages now have been profiled, updates of older entries is ongoing.
- All 17 grand cru villages and all 42 premier cru villages have been profiled, with Le Mesnil-sur-Oger being the last grand cru out, and Vertus the last premier cru.
- Area profile of Vallée de la Marne Ouest, the last area profile, now added.
- All villages in the Terroir de Condé area have been added.
- Alphabetical list of villages (A-V) added for easier access to existing village profiles.
- Older profiles that have recently been significantly updated: March 2019: Merfy, Thil, Boursault, Vauciennes, Mardeuil, January 2019: Saint-Martin-d’Ablois, December 2018: Romery, Cormoyeux, Bligny (Vesle et Ardre), Mareuil-sur-Aÿ, Fleury-la-Rivière, Avenay-Val-d’Or, November 2018: Étoges, Écueil, August 2018: Rilly-la-Montagne, Damery, July 2018: Venteuil.
- Status as of 7 April: 319 out of 319 villages done + 1 other location profile. Village #100 was La Neuville-aux-Larris, #150 was Cuis, #200 was Bar-sur-Seine, #250 was Vindey, #300 was Brasles, and #319 was Montreuil-aux-Lions.
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Category Archives: Alsace
Zind-Humbrecht with a focus on Clos Windsbuhl
Zind-Humbrecht is one of the very best wine producers in Alsace, if not the very best. This producer is located in the Turckheim village and was created in its present form in 1959 from vineyard holdings of the Zind family of Wintzenheim and the Humbrecht family … Continue reading
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Mixed white BYOB with AuZone
In the absence of other tastings scheduled for Maundy Thursday, six of us gathered for a BYOB tasting under the auspices of our wine tasting club AuZone. E.T., who took the initiative, decided on “white and good” as our theme. As … Continue reading
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Paul Blanck at the 2015 Alsace wine day
Paul Blanck, which can be found in the Kientzheim village, was one of the Alsace producers I tasted at the Alsace wine day in Stockholm in the end of January. On his extensive Alsace wine site, Per Warfvinge has a … Continue reading
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Dopff & Irion at the Alsace wine day
Dopff & Irion is a big Alsace wine producer with seat in Riquewihr (village profile at Per Warfvinge’s Alsace wine website). Some of the wines are sold under the name Domaine du Château de Riquewihr. They have 27 hectares (67 acres) of vineyards in the … Continue reading
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Albert Schoech – a good Alsace producer in Ammerschwihr
A new acquaintance at the Alsace wine day in Stockholm some weeks ago was Albert Schoech, a producer located in Ammerschwihr (village profile at Per Warfvinge’s Alsace wine site). Although I didn’t have time to taste through the wines from … Continue reading
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Hugel & Fils at the 2015 Alsace wine day
One of the classical Alsatian producers I checked out at the Alsace wine day a couple of weeks ago was Hugel & Fils. I posted a profile on Hugel when I wrote about last year’s tasting. Here, I just recall … Continue reading
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Marcel Deiss wines at the 2015 Alsace wine day
A few weeks ago, the 2015 edition of the Alsace wine day was held in Stockholm. It is an annual event that always comes back this time of year. One of two producers that I tasted both this year and … Continue reading
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Hugel & Fils – an Alsace producer that is reliably dry and constantly yellow
Hugel & Fils is a classical Alsace producer located in Riquewihr. Their distinctly yellow labels say “Depuis 1639”. The one who founded the company this year was Hans Ulrich Hugel, the initials of whom can still be found in their logotype, … Continue reading
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Alsace wines from Marcel Deiss
Marcel Deiss is considered one of the best wine-producing domaines in Alsace, as well as one of the most idiosyncratic. Deiss can be found in Bergheim (village profile at Per Warvinge’s Alsace site), and there is a Wikipedia article about Marcel Deiss. The … Continue reading
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Alsace wines from Gustave Lorentz
Gustave Lorentz is a sizable Alsace producers with a long history, located in Bergheim. Per Warfvinge’s Alsace website has both a village profile and a producer profile. They have 33 hectares (about 82 acres) of their own vineyards, of which 13.5 hectares (about 33.5 … Continue reading
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