Careful with your AVAs

[Thomas]

You are an easy mark.

I was using Alsace as a reference point for the dychotomy between north and south appellations. One of the major regulatory battles in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in France was between the high-minded who hated the idea of adding sugar and the others in the north who needed to add it.

In Bordeaux, for instance, the premium guys claimed it should not be done at all, as did those in the south who of course did not need sugar additions.

Incidentally, I am grateful that the Alsatians can beef up the alcohol.