1997 Pierre Sparr Pinot Blanc d'Alsace Reserve ($9).

This excellent, concentrated, creamy-textured white French wine offers well-delineated flavors of peaches, pears, minerals, lemon, melons and even litchi nuts. Seldom do you find this degree of complexity in such an inexpensive white wine. It's worth buying by the case.

Pub Date: 9/30/98

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