The wine regions I want to help you discover are what I call, roughly, the German speaking areas – Alsace, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italian Tirol. Yes, you get further speaking the local German dialect in Alsace and Tirol than French or Italian.
The Secret
Why are their wines so little known? Because the wine is excellent, inexpensive and just enough is produced for the locals to drink it all themselves.
Wine is for Drinking
The Anglo-Saxon countries have the wrong approach to wine, they only sip it with meals – not entirely wrong but wine is for DRINKING! My local wine pub serves wine in standard 0.25 litre glasses, that’s over half a pint. (It has only recently, reluctantly, after 160 years, started serving bottled beer – please specify when ordering if you want one out of the fridge!). The wines I will feature are delicious, very drinkable, inexpensive (how about 8 Euro a litre for a superb Riesling) and I guarantee it does not leave a hangover nor give you indigestion.
Women and Wine
Wine is not only very healthy, but women prefer it to beer because it is lighter, tastier, has tremendous variety and the atmosphere in a cosy wine pub is so more 'gemuetlich' than a Bierhall.
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