Hugel is a man given to spicy and expressive outbursts on the joys of Alsatian wines.
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The 14th-century patrician house is decorated with handcrafted Alsatian furniture and French fabrics.
Alsatian wineries tend to be family run, intimate operations and production is almost always small lot and high quality.
And a "petrol" aroma (it's really more a suggestion of motor oil than gasoline) is a badge of distinction among Alsatian Rieslings.
"I didn't see the Alsatian, so I assumed it was locked up round the back where it usually is, " Mr Barr said.
It is abundantly clear that the cool Alsatian climate and the refreshingly lovely wines have yielded a positively ebullient effect on producers such as Hugel.
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Despite all of the German hybridization, the wines are uniquely Alsatian.
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But unless you are Domaine Zind-Humbrecht, Domaine Weinbach or a handful of other top Alsatian producers, that level of retail pricing is a hard sell with Pinot Gris.
Later he was told to drink tea which another soldier's Alsatian had been lapping from and when he refused, he was taken to the bathroom and attacked, he said.
In all the best Pinot Gris, whether produced as an Alsatian dessert wine or a crisp table wine from the foothills of the Italian Alps, the grape itself has the mojo to be the star.
Wild boar with sweet garlic fries mirrors classic steak frites, macaroni and cheese gets dressed up with truffles and Cuban mojo sauce dresses duck with a side of Alsatian rosti laced with manchego.
Alsatian-born and Paris-trained, Loeffler was one of America's most cosmopolitan figures of his day, and if his sensuous music does not possess the singularity of Claude Debussy's, its Impressionist beauties deserve greater familiarity today.
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In "Jules and Jim, " Raoul Coutard's camera permits light to flood into the frame, which endows each composition with depth and space as well as imparting an extraordinary sense of naturalism to the scenes in the Alsatian countryside.
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