France’s Best Kept Secret

By Karen MacNeil
May 31, 2024

No region of France delivers more delicious, complex, dry white wines for amazing prices than Alsace. It’s always been France’s best kept secret. Here are three Alsace STEALS just waiting for you to open them some springtime night soon. (Click on the wine to see where to buy it): MEYER-FONNÉ Pinot Blanc 2022 ($25) (92 pts KM). Could this be the perfect modestly priced white wine? Delicious. Fresh. Rich. Long. Also from MEYER-FONNÉ, their “Gentil” 2022 ($22) (90 pts KM) Simple but so tasty. All fruit and minerals. Made us want Thai takeout. TRIMBACH Gewurztraminer 2018 ($25) (90 pts KM). Bold, dry, and packed with minerally and fruity/floral notes. If you like extroverted whites, here’s your wine.

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Come, send round the wine, and leave points of belief
To simpleton sages and reasoning fools;
This moment’s a flower too fair and brief
To be wither’d and stain’d by the dust of the schools.
Your glass may be purple, and mine may be blue,
But, while they are fill’d from the same bright bowl,
The fool who would quarrel for difference of hue,
Deserves not the comfort they shed o’er the soul.

—Thomas Moore (1779-1852), Irish poet, from Irish Melodies, Vol. II