A Wine Lover's Weekly Guide To $10 Wines - An Alsatian (France) Sylvaner

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