In just a week, two very nice articles came out which add their views to the current and ever lasting Alsace Grand Cru debate...
First by Tom Stevenson (picture above) that appeared in The World of Fine Wine in which Tom wrote a very moving and personnal article about dear uncle Johnny. The author of The Wines of Alsace (Faber & Faber, 1993), did know Johnny particularly well. He was one of the first to react on
our dedicated Blog page to the passing of Johnny by saying: "
A small number of people have contributed so much to Alsace, but none more so than Johnny. I don't think that anyone would dispute that Johnny Hugel was the single most important person in the development of Alsace wine industry throughout the 20th century."
In his detailed article Tom expresses his views on how the Grand Cru system came into being, and much more very personnal stories about Johnny. A
must read !
Second article from the November issue of
Decanter, a very positive feature on
Riesling Grand Cru 2007. The introduction by Sue Style takes all the inside knowledge of another reference on Alsace wines, as Sue has been living in our area for over 2 decades.
Sue Style's explanations could well be an eye opener to many local growers... As our wines were not entered in this tasting, Decanter editor Guy Woodward kindly published the
Hugel view on Grand Cru in his column "and another thing"...
Alsace has been singled out as one of the hot regions in the world to visit this
year by the 
