Schlagwort: riesling

Old stuff from the Rhine: 1996 Pettenthal Auslese trocken from Heinrich Braun

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The wonderful thing about not being perfect is that it makes life a constant source of wonderful surprises. In this case: I don’t use any of those wine cellar apps which allow you to always know what you’ve got and when you should drink it and who wrote about it and with how many points and and and… There is about enough technology in my life! That means that sometimes I dive a bit deeper and my hand stretches out in an unusual direction while facing the wine shelves – and there you go, out comes a dusty bottle like this one: 1996 Riesling Auslese trocken Niersteiner Pettenthal from Heinrich Braun in Nierstein. » Weiterlesen…

News from the Rhine, white on red: Gunderloch and Kühling-Gillot

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Once upon a time, a real long time ago, Rheinhessen wasn’t cool at all. The word as such was almost an insult back then, before the new dawn broke with all the wonderful, adventurous young wine producers we take for granted nowadays… However, there was some excellent wine, above all Riesling, and it grew where the Rhine flows along steep terraces with deep red soil, between Nierstein and Nackenheim, on the so-called Roter Hang. » Weiterlesen…

2011 Kaseler Nies’chen Riesling Kesselstatt and Beenleigh Blue

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We all have those films in our head which are triggered unintentionally by certain keywords. Take blue cheese: shouldn’t you have sweet wine with that? The Roquefort people have told us so many times about Sauternes being the perfect match with its sheeps‘ milk sweetness and penicillium spicyness, and for obvious reasons the Sauternes producers never contradict them… Well, my cellar isn’t exactly overflowing with Sauternes, and really good Roquefort is a rarity (so much of the stuff tastes overly salty and sharp)…  » Weiterlesen…

2011 Kaseler Nies’chen Riesling Kesselstatt und Beenleigh Blue

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Wir haben alle diese Filme im Kopf, die bei bestimmten Stichpunkten automatisch ablaufen. Zum Beispiel Blauschimmelkäse: gehört dazu nicht Süßwein? Die Roquefort-Fraktion hat uns so oft erzählt, Sauternes sei der perfekte Wein zu der Schafsmilch-Fülle und Penicillium-Würze, und die Sauternes-Winzer nicken immer eifrig mit dem Kopf… » Weiterlesen…

The same, yet different: 2012 Roter Riesling from Corvers-Kauter, Rheingau

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In case reading that heading makes you feel dazed and confused: yes, it does mean red Riesling, and it’s not a joke. The white queen has a red sibling! Well, red… let’s make that pinkish  in berry and white in the glass. But it’s rare. To my knowledge it’s been almost extinct until 2006, when a few producers in the Rheingau started to look after it. » Weiterlesen…