Wine Tour of Alsace

I did a wine tour of the area last summer and got wonderfully drunk for free.
Even though it is an area of France they are allowed to put the grape type on their bottles, mainly because it was for a long time part of Germany.
The wine bottles from Alsace are tall, elegant and thin..think of the wine the French Archeologists gives Indie's Girlfriend in Raiders of the lost Arc.

The area mainly produces white sweet wines (the red I tried was terrible)
Grand Cru AOC on the bottle means it is a premier wine.

The big wine from the area is Gewürztraminer, which is a very sweet wine which surprisingly goes well with Asian food. Coop sell a reasonable Gewürztraminer, for me it is a marmite flavour, you either love it or hate it.


Riesling of course, however I prefered the ones I had tried from Germany, needless to say it is also sweet.

Pinot Gris is basically a white Pinot Noir and is called Pinot Grigio in Italy. The English often call it Tokay. It is also a sweet wine but no where near as sugary as the above two and therefore I prefer it.

Sylvaner is Liebfraumilch. Sort of a cheapy grape which is often thought of as bland. I actually quite liked it, which I guess says alot about my tastes.

I brought some 2008 Pinot Gris from Bruno Sorg, you can order it online from him and get it delivered in Switzerland. It was the least sweet Pinot Gris I could find.



Basically the idea is you go through the villages and try all the different wines from different producers. It's a lot of fun and you don't have to buy anything unless you want to.
The really interesting bit is seeing how different each grape can taste when produced by different people, the variety was quite surprising.

EDIT_ wow this thread grew quicker than I thought, I expected this to be post 2.