Michael Pronay > wrote in
:

> Ian Hoare > wrote:
>
>> Another, MUCH more famous, up with Ostertag in the reputation stakes,
>> is Jean-Michel Deiss of Domaine Marcel Deiss.
>
> An absolutely impressive guy ...
>
>> I don't know how much it costs,
>
> (I bet it's sold out since long.)
>
>> but his Grand Cru assemblage
>
> ... who hit the officials into their face by buttling this totally
> illegal concoction (by law a wine labelled "Grand Cru" has to be
> made from one - and only one! - of the four noble grape
> varieties). He was taken to the "tribunal penal" (iirc) - and won!
>
>> "Altenburg de Bergheim" was a revelation - and that's an
>> understatement. It was quite simply the most exciting wine - bar none
>> - that I've tasted for the last 5 years.
>
> Wait for the Valinière ... ;-)
>
> M.


Michael,


As another poster who has had on ongoing love affair with the Deiss
Altenburg de Bergheim, Could you expand on your last comment regarding
Valiniere?

Thanks,
John