Week 26 – Rebholz, Vom Buntsandstein 2013
I have talked about Riesling wines from the Pfalz before, mainly in the context of the Von Winning tasting I participated in a couple of months ago. Stephan Attmann, the winemaker
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A discovery of sweet wines
You cannot get a full picture of German Riesling without talking about the country’s tradition in sweet wines. At one point in time they ranked amongst the most expensive wines
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Horst Sauer, Escherndorfer Lump 2012
So it has been a while since I talked about Franken. At the time I only really focused on two estates to show what the region’s producers could do with
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Eva Fricke, Kiedricher 2012
The Rheingau has historically been considered one of Germany’s premium wine regions. The presence of the Cistercian religious order, of course better known for their work in the Côte d’Or
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Trossen, Schieferblume 2014
We are staying in the Mosel this week with a slightly atypical wine. Rita and Rudolf Trossen have been working biodynamically for almost forty years. At the beginning they focused
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Zilliken, Saarburger Riesling 2013
The Mosel is without a doubt Germany’s most famous wine region. Most people associate it with sweet wines and rightly so. Somehow the slopes along the Mosel or the Saar
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Kühling-Gillot, Nierstein Trocken 2012
Rheinhessen is the most important wineproducing region in Germany. There are two ready explanations for this success. First, it is home to several important varietal crossings, including Muller-Thurgau, Dornfelder and
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Rings, Steinacker 2013
So we’ve talked about Riesling for the last couple of weeks as if it were simply the ideal summer wine but there is of course so much more to it.
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Dr. Crusius, Traiser Riesling 2013
Back to Germany this week with the very region that started my love affair with riesling, the Nahe. Smack in between the Mosel and Rheinhessen, the region used to have
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