36 Hours in the Heart of Alsace

Joel Butler MW 3.17 4.17.2025

Colmar, Alsace, is about a four hour drive southeast from Reims, with an ambience about a million miles away. On my first ‘wine trip’ 53 years ago to Colmar, I came primarily for one reason; to see the awe-inspiring Issenheim Altar Piece (Retable) of Matthias Grünewald, perhaps the greatest Northern Renaissance religious painting ever created (1512-151…