In fact, Altesse is frequently blended with Chardonnay in both still and sparkling Savoie wines.
The French department of Haute-Savoie and its towering Mont Blanc Range have attracted generations of American skiers.
That's another hallmark of Savoie wines in addition to their affinity for cheese, they come with quite a few aliases.
In fact, the only time that customers actually request a Savoie wine is "when they're making fondue, " said Ms. Chan.
Prosecutor Eric Maillaud said the family was on a camping holiday on the edge of Lake Annecy in the Haute-Savoie region.
In fact, Apremont shows up so often on labels that non-Savoie-savvy drinkers might be excused for thinking it, too, was a grape.
Of course, "well-known" is a relative concept when it comes to Savoie.
But if you venture just a few valleys over to the Haute-Savoie hamlet of La Clusaz, your money is going to stretch much farther.
In this he is following a trend in Britain and other countries, notes Donald Savoie, a professor of government at the University of Moncton.
Taste a bit of this authentic French flavour at Restaurant La Savoie, housed in a converted ski chalet in the middle of the base village.
This stretch of the Aravis mountain chain (which runs between Savoie and Haute-Savoie) has five interconnected ski areas with some good off-piste sections, as well as excellent groomed runs.
Three people from Germany, three from Britain, two from Spain and one from Switzerland were killed, Haute-Savoie police said, but the nationalities of the missing are unknown.
Bertrand Francois, of the Haute-Savoie police, told BFM the number of victims was a result of the high number of people in the area at this time of year.
There are other grapes grown in Savoie, too, most notably Gringet (a high-acid white said to be related to a grape from Jura, in eastern France) and Mondeuse blanche and noire (the latter is a bit like Syrah), as well as a few others that are yet more obscure.
All the deaths involved people skiing outside the marked runs and in one fatal incident in the Savoie region this week a skier fell 80 metres over a cliff after he and three friends climbed over a safety barrier that had been built to prevent skiers going into the area .
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