Dear wine lovers,

Tasting the year’s vintage is always a powerful experience. This year I took off along the Alsatian wine roads, exploring the 2007 vintage. Upon arriving at the Alsace Interprofessional Wine Council (Conseil interprofessionnel des vins d’Alsace), in Colmar, however, I was a bit taken aback to find no wines from the Zind-Humbrecht estate. Not the slightest trace of Deiss wines either. It turns out that both Léonard Humbrecht and Jean-Michel Deiss had considered that their wines were unfinished, and had chosen to not present them. Did that mean doing without these two prestigious estates? I had to see for myself, and continued on my way, knocking at the door of the two estates.