Henri Bleger

When we visited the village of St Hippolyte and had lunch at the restaurant there they served us a lovely Rose wine and I immensely enjoyed it. Upon inquiring where we could buy this lovely wine in our broken French the hostess at the restaurant pointed us across the street and as it turns out the restaurant and winery are owned by the same family.
The winery has existed since 1562 according to the sign out the front so I assume that is correct. They make a couple of whites, a rose and a red Pinot noir.
I tasted all of the wines they made and most were pretty decent and what was extremely surprising was the prices. At € 5 for a Rose and € 6 for the Pinot Noir I thought it was a bargain and ended up buying some wine there to bring back. So for € 60 we walked away with 12 bottles of wine and it was better than wines I have paid a lot more for in the past.
We finally opened the Rose this evening and it reminded me of not only how good this wine was but also that I had not written about this place yet :-))
The really interesting part of this whole experience was the fact that whilst our French was a bit weak we were able to converse with him in German and the whole wine tasting was done in German in a French winery… lol
I would happily buy wine from here again and I hope to come back for more Rose in the future. If they have indeed been producing wine for 400 some odd years they must be doing something right :-))

Great hospitality! I was pleasantly surprised with the wine. The lady serving was very generous! We bought Reisling, Gewurtztraminer and Pinot Noir. Makes me proud of my Alsatian ancestry. I hope to come back again.