A masterfully made Muscat is an aromatically divine experience.
Kuentz-Bas vinifies a glorious dry Muscat from grand cru Pfersigberg, an ample and fleshy white scented of ripe citrus, tropical flowers, and exotic fruits.
Sometimes you just need a straightforward, delicious bottle of white wine to satisfy your thirst and brighten your meal. This is it.
Pfersig means “peach,” and the wine’s subtle whispers of white peach are adorable, and then the bouquet keeps growing more expansive, more intense, grander.
Power, intensity, and complexity combine to bring us a Riesling for the ages.
It’s a perfect palate cleanser with refreshing notes of lime granita and tart pineapple.
This unique old-vine bottling from Kuentz-Bas is pure Pinot Auxerrois and boasts honey and orange blossom on the nose for days.
Serve it to friends as an apéritif and listen for wows, because this wine’s perfume provokes wows.
One whiff of this might make you want to plunge right into the glass
Though we’re firmly in Alsace here, it would be a fun nod to pair it with bœuf bourguignon on a cozy fall eve.
Regal, opulent, and commanding—the finest perfumer in all of France couldn’t craft a more stunning scent.
My favorite Riesling in the store, perhaps ever: zesty, minerally, intensely aromatic, and boundlessly deep!
April Club Gourmand ~ Meyer’s Riesling Réserve is a mélange of different terroirs around his domaine in Katzenthal, and is a precise, dry, minerally Riesling loaded with character.
A slightly sweeter style of Gewurztraminer with opulent aromas and flavors to pair with any kind of spicy food.
This wine showcases everything I seek for in a dry Gewurztraminer. The nose shows pure, delicate aromas of fresh lychee and exotic fruit.
New to Alsatian wine? This is the perfect place to start.
Imagine if in Alsace, deep beneath the earth, there were a Riesling aquifer...
The incredibly complex aromas soar out of the glass with an underpinning note of rose petal, the full-bodied and almost oily texture is classic.
Sweet spices conceal an edgy undercurrent, making this Pinot Gris both versatile and alluring.
One of the gems of the Meyer portfolio.
Beautiful aroma, silky mouthfeel, fresh with old-vine weight, interesting, and downright delicious.
This vintage might fool you for an oyster wine. Let it!
Soaring with aromas of brioche and praline, this lush and luxurious bottling sets the benchmark for Crémants everywhere.
Decadent, rich, stony, and a touch off-dry—hard not to love.
The Dudenstein bottling, produced only in great years, represents the pinnacle of Boxler’s wine-growing prowess.
A cornucopia of aroma and flavor
Fronholz’s vibrant mix of fruit and earth, flesh and structure, is Domaine Ostertag’s hallmark.
Here is a Riesling that will have you contemplating texture and terroir above anything else.
Meyer’s 2020 is lovely stuff—fermented dry, full-bodied in style, it shines at table in a multitude of gastronomic settings with kaleidoscopic range.
A fragrant cuvée full of peach skin, green guava, and passion fruit seeds.
Exceptional Pinot Noir from Sommerberg
The small, sunny Mandelberg cru is already a classic through and through—petrol notes with lush pear, honey, and a tart bite of green apple.
With beautiful texture and notes of honeysuckle, peaches, and stones, this Pinot Blanc is a masterful display of subtlety and refinement.
Racy and pure, with a full arsenal of fruit and ample style, this is a complete Alsatian Riesling experience.
Meyer-Fonné’s 2022 has a floral, perfumed nose—perhaps from a splash of Muscat?—and a soft mid-palate with green apple and pear—surely a sign of Pinot Blanc in there.
Often featuring grand cru fruit, this bottling is arguably the ideal entry point to Boxler’s range of magnificent white wines.
Brand is Boxler’s most powerful Riesling
Delicious alongside black cod in miso soy marinade.
It’s hard to imagine this beauty could taste any better than it does now, but I’ll be curious to revisit it in five to ten years.
Made from young vine fruit from Grand Cru vineyards, this Riesling delivers delicious fruit, crispness, and minerality beyond its price point.
That grapes can be cajoled and fashioned to make such a liquid is miraculous.
Lush fruit, stony flavors, and completely dry...you will be thinking twice about why you didn’t buy more!
Earthy Pinot Gris as dramatic and flinty as this, with a hint of residual sugar, demands an assertive pairing; try it with smoked sausage and mustard.
Late-harvest wines of this quality in Alsace take incredible skill to make. This is a supremely beautiful example of a harmonious, highly successful partnership between man and nature.
This wine shows how understated, finessed, and downright glorious dry Pinot Gris can be in Alsace.
ou’ll want to open it alongside richer dishes, or ones that take the longest to make, those that deserve a layered and complex bottling to match.
Decadent, rich, stony, and a touch off-dry—hard not to love.
The rose petal perfume of this ravishing Gewurztraminer enveloped the entire table, and was the perfect way to end a perfect meal.
This mouthwatering and impeccably balanced Riesling is a testament to the majestic heights Alsace’s grands crus can reach.
Sweet spices conceal an edgy undercurrent, making this Pinot Gris both versatile and alluring.
Earthy Pinot Gris as dramatic and flinty as this, with a hint of residual sugar, demands an assertive pairing; try it with smoked sausage and mustard.
Each sip is akin to biting into a piece of fresh-picked fruit, with an earthy minerality and bright acidity augmenting the palate-coating flavors of peach, orange zest, and white flowers.
The brilliance of this site is its ability to produce sumptuously rich and perfumed Pinot Gris that maintains a vibrant acidity and stony backbone.
The rose petal perfume of this ravishing Gewurztraminer enveloped the entire table, and was the perfect way to end a perfect meal.
This Riesling “Katz,” as we call it, is a beautifully linear and chiseled style of Riesling, fresh and pure.
This bottle gives some of my favorite grand cru Rieslings a run for their money with a nose evoking peach skin and pear and a palate that ripples with fresh acidity.
From the exceedingly fine and elegant nose to the creamy and lacy texture, the overall balance and touch, and its hint of salty freshness, this wine shows how understated, finessed, and downright glorious dry Pinot Gris can be in Alsace.
Chez Boxler, Chasselas is fortunate enough to enjoy a privileged position on the granite slopes of Niedermorschwihr. Here, it becomes the reincarnation of a bubbling mountain spring—shockingly thirst-quenching!
he first pour is dominated by the classic petrol notes of aged Riesling, but aromas of honey, beeswax, and golden apple soon emerge.
Bone-dry on the palate, it features intense, clean aromas with excellent minerality.
Hot stone and white pepper liven up the backbone of this extraordinarily complex, unique white.
Decidedly lean in its youth, but with hints of glycerin, apple wax, and resin that will evolve into lavish layers as it ages.
Heimbourg, a very stony, steep limestone terroir in Turckheim, produces a powerful, full-bodied style of Pinot Gris with exceptional aging potential.
This Pinot Blanc is weightless, sultry, and lengthy as the day is long.
Everything that comes from Domaine Albert Boxler seems to have an extra dash of magic, and this debut bottling of Pinot Gris from the grand cru of Florimont is no exception.
You’ll detect a steely quality on the finish, and the slightest hint of the petrol often associated with Riesling. Delicious!
Very smooth, silky, and spicy, a wine obviously influenced by Boxler’s love for Burgundy.
A grainy texture and a lightness on its feet that his other more powerful and structured Pinots grown in limestone do not possess.
Fronholz is a vineyard composed primarily of quartz, and the taste of an Ostertag wine from here is reminiscent of this stone: sleek, transparent, and brilliant.
There is a rich, toasty complexity from lees aging, which highlights the delicate aromas you’ll find in your glass: honey, nectarine, citrus, and summer flowers.
This rich, gastronomic crémant with fine and elegant bubbles will have even the Champagne purist singing its praises.
You’ll want to pair this with a roast chicken or duck, or grilled sausages, when you are in the mood to forego a red with the main course.
If you don’t recognize Félix Meyer’s touch from the rich aromas of lychee, candied ginger, and rose petals, you will by the time you finish your first glass.
A fragrant blend of mostly Riesling and Muscat, Félix Meyer’s organically grown Gentil is crisp and lean and works like a reset button for your palate.
With unrivaled versatility at table and guaranteed mouthwatering abilities, Sylvaner brings something new and fresh to the table.
Félix Meyer’s old-vine Pinot Blanc from the slopes of Katzenthal, in Alsace, has long overdelivered in the role of the proverbial “crisp white” for which we long.
That grapes can be cajoled and fashioned to make such a liquid is miraculous. This aroma is beyond belief.