To try, buy and put by

TO TRY: Trimbach Pinot Gris Reserve, Alsace 2016, €22.99 from Donnybrook Fair stores throughout Leinster and at donnybrookfair.ie (90)

Alsace is one of most curious parts of France. It feels adrift from its northern location squeezed in between Paris, Champagne and the German border with the Rhine. It is a strong, rural and ancient landscape that revels in the age of almost everything there: 1,000-year-old churches, 2,000-year-old Roman ruins and six-century-old family businesses ...