Christmas is ‘a stressful time for the locals’ The village of Riquewihr is straight out of an illustrated book of fairytales, with its colourful timber-framed houses surrounde ...

Pressed up against the German border, along the Rhine, the region flip-flopped between Germany and France for centuries. (The ...

One of its most interesting is a historic city in Medina County that is a little slice of European delight and is widely referred to as the "Little Alsace of Texas" -- Castroville. Castroville is ...

This year, one of the star attractions of the French pavilion will be Les Vins d'Alsace, or wines from the Alsace region. We speak to Philippe Bouvet, the marketing director of CIVA, an ...

Before coming here I’d never known the original meaning of the word “gourmet”: Each city in a wine region (like Alsace) had a man appointed to rate and price wines, and to serve as the ...