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France’s Alsace wine region produces some of the world’s greatest wines. While production is focused on dry white wines, Alsace also makes sparkling Crémant d’Alsace, as well as late harvest sweet wines called vendange tardive or sélection de grains nobles (made from botrytised grapes). Alsace’s powerful wines have much to do with its dry, sunny conditions, a factor of the protective Vosges mountains, whose foothills also boast mineral-rich soils and slopes perfect for high quality viticulture, with superior sites classified as grand cru. Alsace’s best appellation wines are made from single grapes Riesling, Pinot Gris, Muscat or Gewurztraminer, with Pinot Noir for red wines, and can be labelled by grape variety, exceptional in France.