Pinot Country

regionAlsace

47.00°N48.00°NBadenBadenAlsace53 km
Alsace, and what else this directory knows within 240 km.

A dry strip in the rain shadow of the Vosges where nearly everything is white — except pinot noir, the one red grape the appellation allows.

Today Tradition

What used to be pale and often rosé now gets destemmed, barrel-aged and sold as red, and the 2022 rules brought thirteen grand cru sites into play for it. Tradition holds — the older bottles were lighter because nobody expected otherwise.

Facts

countryFrance
levelregion
regionAlsace
where48.2000, 7.3500 (region) · OpenStreetMap · open in maps Cited
confidencemedium · needs verification · updated 2026-09-16

Near here

Straight-line kilometres; the road is always longer. The finder sorts every cellar on the map from wherever you are.

Its kin

the vinePinot noirThe only red the appellation permits.the vinePinot grisIts grey sibling, grown on the same slopes.and of this page it says: Where it grows beside its black parent under the same appellation.regionBadenAcross the Rhine, the same climate under another flag.and of this page it says: Same rift valley, other bank, similar size.

Sources

Where it came from: Cited a source we name · Harvested pulled from an open dataset · Tradition what the tradition says, hedged · Inference this project's reasoning · Field somebody stood there. This record as JSON.

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