In Alsace, it is a go-to wine with smoky pork chops, sausage and choucroute.
Geographically speaking Alsace is located in the upper eastern edge of France along the German border.
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The range and scope of what Alsace has to offer is marvelous, and worth exploring.
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As he speeds ahead of me I make a mental note to drink more wines from Alsace.
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The French army was humiliated by the loss of Alsace-Lorraine, then shaken by the Paris Commune uprising.
The Swiss Taeuber-Arp and her husband, Hans Arp, from Alsace, were Dadaists in Zurich during the First World War.
Since most French smokers are rational - at least with their money - cigarette sales have plummeted across Alsace.
Indeed, what Alsace does best is craft mouth-watering, almost savory, complex white wines.
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Kahn was born in 1860 in a town called Marmoutier in Alsace in eastern France--an area occupied by Prussia when Kahn was 11.
In Alsace particularly on the lower slopes of the Vosges Mountains, with their deep marly, limestone soils this pink grape variety finds a natural home.
"I will vote No, " says Yves Henrion, a tobacconist in Saint-Louis in southern Alsace whose turnover has almost halved in the past two years.
Even in places where it's a good fit, like Alsace, Friuli, Trentino-Alto Adige and Oregon's Willamette Valley, the wine involves plenty of risk and offers uncertain reward.
Tucked between the Vosges Mountains and the Rhine, hugging the border between France and Germany, Alsace enjoys a cool growing climate similar to that of the Champagne region.
From Alsace Sylvaner to Altesse from Savoy, Arneis in Piedmont, Scheurebe from Germany and Pigato in Liguria (and more), I found characterful wines that were as distinctive as they were well-priced.
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His father was a successful industrialist from Alsace (which had fallen to the Germans after the Franco-Prussian war in 1870-71), supplying him with an unusually handsome income for a man of his rank.
Would the border region of Alsace-Lorraine, with its rich seams of coal, again be fought over as European nations struggled to control a key commodity, coal to produce electricity, needed for a war-making machine?
Though these wines are stylistically all over the map, many of the best Oregon Pinot Gris have settled happily into a niche somewhere between the full-bodied, powerful style of Alsace and the lighter wines of central Italy.
Overtaken by Germany when it won the Franco-Prussian war in 1871, Alsace and a good part of Lorraine sent streams of refugees to Nancy, whose population nearly doubled in the last quarter of the 19th century.
The profession in the Alsace region has been deeply hurt by increases in cigarette taxes since 2002, which mean that a packet on the French side of the border is 20% more expensive than in neighbouring Germany.
In Alsace that is a terrible mistake.
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This cosy French city of roughly 66, 000 people in the eastern Alsace region is home to five charming winter fairs, all part of La Magie de Noel (Christmas Magic) market, a tradition that dates back to the late Middle Ages.
While Chardonnay grew to fame as "white Burgundy, " Pinot Gris began turning up in odd corners of the wine world under murky aliases: In France alone, Pinot Gris is also known as Tokay d'Alsace, Pinot Beurot in Burgundy and Malvoisie in the Loire.
Mr Marnham lists some of her lovers Peter Hope, Norman Pearson, John Montagu-Pollock, John Platts-Mills, Heinz Ziegler, Raymond Lee, Robert d'Alsace but there were plenty more, ending with Robert Bolt, an English playwright and dramatist, when she was in her late 60s and a widow.
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More than a decade ago, VW Chairman Ferdinand Piech, grandson of Ferdinand Porsche, commissioned a vanity project to rival the pyramids: to resurrect the great French luxury and racing marque Bugatti, right down to Ettore Bugatti's l'orangerie in Molsheim, in Alsace, France, and build there the greatest sports car of all time, with no compromise.
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