| For many years I have enjoyed and reviewed | | | | Alsace is a relatively small wine-producing region. |
| many wines from Alsace, France with their | | | | Its wine growing area is a mere 60 miles (100 |
| distinctively shaped bottles and sometimes, but | | | | kilometers) long and at most 2.5 miles (4 |
| not always, their distinctive taste. This is the first | | | | kilometers) wide sitting on the German border to |
| time in recent memory that I have found one for | | | | the east. Almost all its wine is white. While |
| under $10. I'd like to say something about this | | | | Sylvaner is fairly widely planted, it is not |
| price limit. I live in Ontario, Canada where wine | | | | considered a fine grape in Alsace or elsewhere. |
| prices tend to be somewhat higher than in many | | | | For $10 did you expect to get a fine grape from |
| parts of the United States. Our dollar fluctuates | | | | an expensive region in an expensive wine |
| and I don't want to cut off a wine because the | | | | producing country? However, this wine just might |
| Canadian dollar inched up a bit. So I specify about | | | | end up being a bargain. |
| $10 when it's floating near the limit. | | | | |