Alsace Wine Decoded: 51 Grand Crus, 8 Grapes & a Classification Still Being Written

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Alsace is the strangest, most distinctive wine region in France. It's been French, then German, then French, then German, then French again. Its grapes are German. Its bottles are German. Its villages have German names. And yet the wines are unmistakably, deliberately French. In this video I break down everything you need to read an Alsace label: the four "noble" grapes, the AOC system, the 51 Grand Crus (added one by one between 1975 and 2007), the late-harvest sweet wines, Crémant d'Alsace, and the brand-new Premier Cru tier that's being voted on right now. This is your ultimate guide to Alsace wine.

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00:00 Introduction

00:54 History of Alsace wine

02:21 Geography of Alsace vineyards

04:10 The 8 grapes of Alsace wines

06:47 The classifications of Alsace wines

11:45 Allowing Pinot noir in Alsace Grand Cru

13:27 Sweet wines from Alsace

14:41 The new step in the Alsace wine classification