Wine region

Alsace

1,078 winesOn the map

About Alsace

Alsace wine or Alsatian wine is produced in the Alsace region in France and is primarily white wine. Because of its Germanic influence, it is the only Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée region in France to produce mostly varietal wines, typically from similar grape varieties to those used in German wine. Along with Austria and Germany, it produces some of the most noted dry Rieslings in the world as well as highly aromatic Gewürztraminer wines. Wines are produced under three different AOCs: Alsace AOC for white, rosé and red wines, Alsace Grand Cru AOC for white wines from certain classified vineyards and Crémant d'Alsace AOC for sparkling wines. Both dry and sweet white wines are produced.

From the Wikipedia article Alsace wine, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Alsace is a wine region, France. We track 1,078 of its wines in stock at 98 shops, from 111 wine houses, from € 6.50; mostly white, red, sparkling.

At a glance
Country
France
In our wines
Riesling, Pinot Gris, Gewürztraminer, Pinot Noir, Pinot Blanc
Styles
White 734 · Red 138 · Sparkling 126 · Orange 53 · Rosé 10 · Dessert 6
Prices
from € 6.50 · median € 26.76 / 75 cl

Vintages

per year: wines in stock, prices, and the critics' scores the shops quote
VintageWinesFromMedian / 75 clCritics' scoreGrowing season
20261€ 35.00€ 35.00–hotdryso far +3.5 °C · 1,703 GDD · 37 % rain
202537€ 8.95€ 21.41–hotwet harvest +1.1 °C · 1,275 GDD · 105 % rain
202494€ 9.15€ 22.7192.0 (1 wine)hotwetwet harvest +1.1 °C · 1,285 GDD · 132 % rain
2023160€ 9.75€ 26.0093.7 (3 wines)hot +2.1 °C · 1,550 GDD · 85 % rain
2022141€ 10.03€ 29.3095.0 (1 wine)hot +2.3 °C · 1,567 GDD · 87 % rain
2021101€ 6.50€ 30.00–cool −0.6 °C · 1,022 GDD · 108 % rain
202078€ 10.20€ 32.12–warm +0.9 °C · 1,257 GDD · 90 % rain
201939€ 12.00€ 36.7996.0 (2 wines)warm +0.9 °C · 1,256 GDD · 107 % rain
201832€ 11.90€ 46.1899.0 (1 wine)hot +1.9 °C · 1,474 GDD · 77 % rain
201715€ 19.95€ 34.00–warm +0.6 °C · 1,232 GDD · 95 % rain
201613€ 24.90€ 48.17–average ±0.0 °C · 1,127 GDD · 125 % rain
20158€ 22.80€ 40.98–average +0.2 °C · 1,151 GDD · 85 % rain
2014––––average +0.1 °C · 1,077 GDD · 124 % rain
20132€ 43.48€ 155.54–average −0.4 °C · 1,002 GDD · 123 % rain
20121€ 53.00€ 53.00–average −0.2 °C · 1,065 GDD · 128 % rain
20116€ 13.38€ 24.25–warm +0.5 °C · 1,153 GDD · 93 % rain
20102€ 72.00€ 370.49–cool −0.9 °C · 932 GDD · 105 % rain
20091€ 50.84€ 50.84–average +0.4 °C · 1,173 GDD · 83 % rain
20083€ 40.13€ 668.98–coolwet harvest −0.7 °C · 988 GDD · 127 % rain
20072€ 129.00€ 198.30–average −0.2 °C · 1,029 GDD · 109 % rain
2006––––warmwetwet harvest +0.7 °C · 1,235 GDD · 132 % rain
20051€ 227.45€ 227.45–average +0.3 °C · 1,134 GDD · 97 % rain
2004––––average −0.1 °C · 1,052 GDD · 104 % rain
20031€ 267.59€ 133.79–hot +1.3 °C · 1,474 GDD · 75 % rain
20023€ 52.00€ 104.00–average −0.1 °C · 1,054 GDD · 97 % rain
2001––––average −0.1 °C · 1,113 GDD · 88 % rain
20001€ 441.52€ 662.28–average +0.2 °C · 1,093 GDD · 85 % rain
1999––––average +0.1 °C · 1,116 GDD · 112 % rain
1998––––average −0.4 °C · 1,044 GDD · 94 % rain
1997––––cool −0.6 °C · 1,050 GDD · 84 % rain
1996––––cold −1.5 °C · 790 GDD · 97 % rain
1995––––cool −0.5 °C · 984 GDD · 101 % rain
1994––––averagewet harvest −0.1 °C · 1,121 GDD · 105 % rain
1993––––average −0.4 °C · 1,026 GDD · 98 % rain
1992––––average −0.3 °C · 1,144 GDD · 91 % rain
1991––––averagedry −0.4 °C · 1,089 GDD · 70 % rain
1990––––average −0.1 °C · 1,113 GDD · 74 % rain
1989––––cool −0.5 °C · 1,023 GDD · 88 % rain
1988––––cool −0.5 °C · 968 GDD · 102 % rain
1987––––coolwet −0.9 °C · 868 GDD · 132 % rain
1986––––cool −0.9 °C · 979 GDD · 129 % rain
1985––––cold −1.0 °C · 903 GDD · 87 % rain
1984––––coldwet harvest −2.1 °C · 700 GDD · 106 % rain
1983––––coolwet −0.7 °C · 979 GDD · 133 % rain
1982––––coolwet −0.7 °C · 1,024 GDD · 134 % rain

Growing season (April–October; October–April south of the equator): mean temperature against Alsace's 1991–2020 normal (hot: 1 °C or more above, warm: 0.5 °C, cool/cold below), growing degree days (warmth for the vines, base 10 °C) and rain against normal, with the harvest month (September/March) flagged when very wet or dry. Monthly data from NASA POWER (MERRA-2) at one point in the region. The current year is compared with the same months of a normal year (“so far”); its latest months are preliminary and revised by NASA later.

Critics' score: the average of the best 100-point score quoted for each wine of that vintage, as the shops quote them. A few quoted wines make a thin average; the number of wines is in brackets.