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Five are now available in the new format: Europe, France, Bordeaux, Burgundy - le Grande Cte, and Alsace. ☞ READ MORE: 14 Amusing French Wine Quotes for a little tipple Editions Benoit, cartographer and publisher of a fine line of wine maps of French wine regions, is redesigning all of his maps. Wine tasting in Alsace has bloomed as an industry and appellations like Reisling have become renowned the world over. Most of the wines produced in this area are white wines, but there is the odd red wine and crémant (sparkling wine) as well. Since the 1950s, with French “savoir-faire”, wines from Alsace have diverged in taste from German wines, becoming sweeter and drier, and at the same time gaining wide-spread recognition. These days Alsatian wines benefit from their status as being in France, not Germany. (Germany may not be well-known for its wine but there are vineyards along the Rhine river in the Western part of Germany that date back to Roman times.) With the region ping-ponging back and forth between Germany and France, wines from Alsace were originally heavily influenced by German wines. With continual wars between France and Germany since the era of Charlemagne, the region had the distinction of being a battleground, rather than as a famous wine route. With some excellent white wines like Reisling and Gewurztraminer, Alsace is slowly building a name and a reputation. This is not to say that wines from Alsace are not popular. Amongst the famous and most prestigious wines of France, there are not many that are from Alsace. Over the centuries, it has been it has not been easy to be a winegrower in the Alsace region. Please note, information provided is for entertainment purposes. (As an Amazon affiliate, we may earn commissions on certain purchases.