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Alsace Grand Cru AOC
Alsace Grand Cru () is an Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée for wines made in specific parcels of the Alsace wine region of France. The Grand Cru AOC was recognized in 1975 by the Institut National des Appellations d'Origine, INAO with subsequent expansion in 1983, 1992 and 2007.INAO: AOC Alsace Grand Cru regulations, updated until September 28, 2007
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The wines come from selected sites in the Alsace AOC region,INAO: AOC Alsace regulations, updated until January 14, 2007
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Sélection De Grains Nobles
Sélection de Grains Nobles (SGN) is French for "selection of noble berries" and refers to wines made from grapes affected by noble rot. SGN wines are sweet dessert wines with rich, concentrated flavours. Alsace wines were the first to be described as ''Sélection de Grains Nobles'', with the legal definition introduced in 1984,Hugel.com: Vendange Tardive and SGN
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Use in Alsace

For Alsace wines, SGN is the highest official category for

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Vendange Tardive
Vendange tardive ("VT") means "''late harvest''" in French. The phrase refers to a style of dessert wine where the grapes are allowed to hang on the vine until they start to dehydrate. This process, called passerillage, concentrates the sugars in the juice and changes the flavours within it. The name is sometimes written as the plural form, ''vendanges tardives'', referring to the fact that several runs through the vineyard are often necessary to produce such wines. In other countries such as Germany or Austria the term Spätlese is used to describe wine using the same making process. Alsace wines were the first to be described as ''vendange tardive'' but the term is now used in other regions of France. Since 1984, the term has been legally defined in Alsace and may only be applied to wines that exceed a minimum must weight and pass blind tasting by the INAO. Sélection de Grains Nobles ("SGN") is an even sweeter category, for grapes affected by noble rot. ''Vendange tardive'' ...
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Treaty Of Versailles
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Renaissance
The Renaissance ( , ) is a Periodization, period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries. It marked the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and was characterized by an effort to revive and surpass the ideas and achievements of classical antiquity. Associated with great social change in most fields and disciplines, including Renaissance art, art, Renaissance architecture, architecture, politics, Renaissance literature, literature, Renaissance exploration, exploration and Science in the Renaissance, science, the Renaissance was first centered in the Republic of Florence, then spread to the Italian Renaissance, rest of Italy and later throughout Europe. The term ''rinascita'' ("rebirth") first appeared in ''Lives of the Artists'' () by Giorgio Vasari, while the corresponding French word was adopted into English as the term for this period during the 1830s. The Renaissance's intellectual basis was founded in its version of Renaiss ...
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Kaysersberg
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Château Du Hohlandsbourg
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Hengst (grand Cru)
The Alsace Grand Cru Hengst, or Hengst, is a French wine originating in the commune of Wintzenheim, in the département of Haut-Rhin, in Alsace. While historically almost solely made up by white wines, a small amount of production is now Grand Cru red wine, solely from Pinot Noir grapes. It is one of the fifty-one Alsace wine areas (''vignobles)'' which have Alsace Grand Cru AOC status. History Hengst was mentioned for the first time in Wintzenheim in the 19th century. The seigneurs of Haut Landsbourg and the bailliff of Kayserberg had proprietary rights there until the French Revolution. In 1983 Hengst was one of the twenty-four places used as geographical names in the Alsace Grand Cru appellation. Since then several changes have occurred: the decree of 1 March 1984 regulates the use of the terms vendanges tardives and sélection de grains nobles within the appellation, and the decree of 24 January 2001 both reduces allowed yields and allows the modification of the speci ...
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