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Alsace

After a long period of border conflict between France and Germany, this French region developed a strong identity centered on gastronomy, wine, and sustainability. With those assets, today’s winemaking families have a clear understanding of how their unique terroir—a mosaic of more than a dozen ancient soils—transmits distinct characteristics into wines that cannot be made anywhere else on earth. There’s good reason that claims of pure expression are made for these wines: Few other regions offer such communicable profiles of minerality, fruit, florals, spice, and earthiness. Today, Alsace produces some of the world’s most intriguing, diverse, and terroir-transparent wines. [Read more]