Alsace Wine Region - 2017 Vintage Update It’s Sunday 22nd of October and the Alsace 2017 vintage is harvested and safely in cellars up and down the wine route. This includes the late harvest wines, the Vendanges Tardives and the Selection de Grains Nobles. Back In Alsace had the good fortune to visit [...]
Interview with Patrick Meyer Notes from a short discussion with Patrick Meyer, at the Summer Fascht natural wine event. The event was held at Christian Binner’s winery in Ammerschwihr in July 2017. After our April visit to Patrick Meyer’s winery and vineyards in Nothalten, this was [...]
Pinot Noir in the Alsace Grand Cru The Alsace Grands Crus : Grand Cru Hengst The campaign and project to designate Grand Cru status to Alsace vineyards came to fruition in 1975. Hard work, extreme focus and political awareness made this classification [...]
Les Vins Libérés – Summer Fête – Ammerschwihr : Les Vins Libérés is a day of celebration that comes on the heels of the mini salons that fringed some bigger events in 2015 and 2016. This time, producers put together a stand-alone event, a one-day summer [...]
ACT - Alsace Crus and Terroirs : 2017 Now before we start on this one, Back In Alsace would like to emphasise that we are again “outside looking in and also inside looking in”. There was a burst of publicity when ACT got its act [...]
Lucas Rieffel The Location Lucas Rieffel’s winery is in the village of Mittelbergheim. A place that feels like it’s close to somewhere else, like Heaven’s Door. Somewhere special, where something special is happening. That something is a group of winemakers that has developed a [...]
André OSTERTAG André Ostertag amongst the Rieslings of the Grand Cru Muenchberg. The Location: André Ostertag’s winery is a complex of buildings on the edge of the town of Epfig, which lies midway between Strasbourg and Colmar, about 35 kilometres from each. Epfig is 5 km east [...]
Laurent Barth The Location Laurent Barth’s winery, in the small town of Bennwihr, lies 7 km north of Colmar. The surrounding Grand Cru vineyards are part of a cluster of ten. The only real cluster in Alsace, as the 51 Grand Cru vineyards mostly cling to [...]
