This is a sponsored post written by me in conjunction with the June #Winophiles event. Wine samples were provided for this post and this page may contain affiliate links. Jeff of FoodWineClick! is hosting the French Winophiles as we explore the Alsace region for June's event. You can read his invitation: here . And many thanks to Michelle of Rockin Red Blog for arranging samples through Teuwen Communications for the party as they represent Wines of Alsace and spearhead the month-long Alsace Rocks . Cheers! To Alsace Alsace, due to its location on the border of Germany and France, has been subject to a series of political tug-of-wars for years and years. Here's what I mean: at the end of the Thirty Years' War, in the mid-17th century, Alsace was given to France. Nearly 250 years later, at the end of the Franco-Prussian War, Alsace was seized by Germany. Post-WWI, it was once again part of France...until 1940 when Germany reclaimed it. And, finally, with the ...