Riquewihr is one of the most picturesque towns in France. We walked through the medieval arch, along the cobbled streets, and into a half-timbered house, home of Famille Hugel, one of Alsace's oldest wine families. The...
I dream of living round the corner from a restaurant where I feel at home, and where my heart would take to me every week, every day to eat, drink and be merry. ...
A wine label is a visual expression of the wine in the bottle. Nowhere is this belief held more firmly than at biodynamic wine producer Domaine Marc Kreydenweiss, in the Alsace region of France, on...
Alsace wine in particular goes well with food. It's the salinity of the wines, I was told. My culinary height during my 3-day trip in Alsace with Clos Driver Wine Tours peaked at Restaurant 64°,...
I was planning to write about Domaine Marcel Deiss, one of Alsace's most famous wine dynasties. I still am. But then I bumped into Mathieu Deiss at London's RAW WINE fair this weekend, so I'm...
Alsace is renowned for its fairy-tale villages, with colour-saturated buildings, medieval turrets, storks’ nests , solid ramparts and chiming clock towers. It can feel like Christmas 365 days of the year. My first experience of an...
London has gone 'natural wine' mad this week, with the opening of the RAW WINE London fair. Two names who won't be there, but who are making waves in natural wine, or vin nature as...
It's all about style at Domaine Weinbach, a family-run domaine in the Kaysersberg valley of Alsace, in the foothills of the Vosges mountains. The Weinbach style is found in the richness of the oak-wood panelling...
Strasbourg was my beginning and my end ...