In Frankfurt the Bulls and the Bears are both bullish on Riesling
A perky blond walks into my cubicle. “Do you have a moment? There’s someone you might like to meet.”
I duck into a large, grey meeting room, darkened for a slide presentation. I cannot make out the presenter. I really have many other things to [...]
Wine of the week: Barefoot Riesling NV
By: Jeff Siegel from The Wine Curmudgeon
The Wine Curmudgeon has long been ambivalent about Barefoot wines. They seem to occupy the middle ground between Two Buck Chuck, which is usually just cheap, and the $10 wines I like, which are cheap and always worth drinking.
The riesling [...]
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From Jeff Siegal @ The Wine Curmudgeon
Long before Australia was famous for shiraz and high alcohol, or even livestock wines, it made riesling. And it wasn’t riesling that others would necessarily recognize, but a typically Aussie version: Dry, with what can only be described as a not unpleasant petrol aroma, and some lime fruit. An [...]
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September 16, 2009
By: Rebecca Murphy
Source: Dallas Morning News
Vertikal, Mosel, Piesporter Michelsberg, Special Collection,Riesling Spätlese 2007, $13.99
The Mosel vineyards in Germany provide the most delicate and floral rieslings of all that country’s wine regions. Witness this sublime example: whispers of crushed flowers and white peaches with dusty mineral notes followed by sweet, white peach flavors balanced [...]
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