Great Wine Made Simple by Andrea Robinson

Author:Andrea Robinson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780307885784
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Published: 2010-10-27T10:00:00+00:00

The Grapes

To wine lovers looking for signs of life beyond the varietal world of Chardonnay, Alsace offers a whole new galaxy to explore. The great wines are all whites. Choosing one to buy is as simple as choosing which grape style you would like. Four are known as Alsace’s noble grapes, and each is distinctive, as our tasting will show:

Riesling

Gewürztraminer

Pinot Gris—formerly called Tokay d’Alsace or Tokay Pinot Gris, but the European Community’s wine committee thought this might be confused with Hungary’s famous Tokaji (Toe-KYE) dessert wine

Muscat (MUSS-cat)

Other, more everyday, white varieties are planted for blending and making sparkling wine, as is a tiny bit of red Pinot Noir.

With the grape listed front and center, it is easy to use the label to figure out the wine style. The climate, cool but very sunny, would suggest fruit flavors from the cool to moderate zone of the Flavor Map—ripe apple, pear, citrus, and peach—which is spot on for these wines. And as you may remember from Chapter 2, two of these grapes have an exotic flair—the spicy Gewürztraminer and the floral Muscat.

Here is a tasting comparison to familiarize you with the different grape styles. In previous chapters, we’ve tasted most of these already, so this tasting is really a review for all but the Pinot Gris.

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