Alsace wine, hock bottle. (Photo: Alen Kadar/Shutter stock) The Hock bottle is tall and slender with a delicate neck. These are some of the more colorful bottles. They can be brown, green, clear ...

Beyond its Grand Cru wines, Alsace is noted for its sparkling wine, Crémant d'Alsace. Like Champagne, these wines are made in the “traditional method” with a secondary fermentation in the bottle.

Hock: These tall, narrow bottles are common in Germany and the Alsace region of France. ... A typical full bottle of wine weighs about 3 pounds, but it can surpass 4 pounds.

Wine To Try: Hugel Gentil 2013. The Hugel Family, located in the town of Riquewihr, Alsace, was founded in 1639. They are one of the oldest family owned businesses in the world, with the 12th ...

Wine grape varieties offered at the tasting stops include Riesling, rosé, Pinot Blanc, Pinot Gris, Gewürztraminer, Crémant ...

Cremant d'Alsace is France's go-to sparkling wine. The French consume more of it at home than sparkling wine from any other wine area than Champagne, according to the Conseil Interprofessionnel ...

Albert Boxler Alsace Pinot Blanc Réserve 2018, 14.5 percent (Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant, Berkeley, Calif.) $47 Because the wines are not so easy to find, the three bottles I suggest are each made ...

The wine is usually light and fragrant, gentle, shy and graceful. I think of it as wonderful for a spring or summer lunch. Sylvaner follows the general trajectory of Alsace wines in the United States.

Boeckel only produces between 4,000-6,000 bottles each year with his small lot on the Zotzenberg Grand Cru and this wine will only get better with age. Rietsch Crémant d'Alsace Extra Brut ...

Wine bottles may also have different weights — please note, however, that the bottle's weight does not indicate the quality ...