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(Click here to read Alsace – Part 1) (Click here to read Alsace – Part 2) (Click here to read Alsace – Part 3) (Click here to read Alsace – Part 4) Domaine Jean-Luc Mader in Alsace, France What is it like to grow up in a winemaking family? Do
(Click here to read Alsace – Part 1) (Click here to read Alsace – Part 2) (Click here to read Alsace – Part 3) Here is someone who has known what they wanted to be since the age of three: Agathe Bursin, winemaker of The Agathe Bursin Winery, in Alsace,
(Click here to read Alsace - Part 1) (Click here to read Alsace - Part 2) Seriously, can you think of anything you can do today that people enjoyed in the 1500s? Drinking the wines of Domaine Emile Beyer is the only thing that comes to my mind. This winery
(Click here to read Alsace - Part 1) What would you do if your mother suddenly started making wine? Well, it would be a little different if your mother (and you) lived in Alsace, France. This is what happened in Pierre Bernhard’s family about forty years ago. And now Pierre
I recently spent a (virtual) week in Alsace, France getting to know the wines through a handful of small, family wineries in the area. With 400 years of modern winemaking at the Jean-Baptiste Adam Winery, I have to admit I was a bit intimidated to talk with young Laure Adam
This is the first of a series of three articles on the terroir of Central Otago, the most southerly wine growing region in the world, at 45 degrees South, marked by a dry, semi-continental climate. Known for pinot noir, the region has more than one grape to it—and more than