If I have a love affair with any one fine wine grape, it’s got to be Riesling. I’m not a fan of saying that a particular grape is superior to another when it comes to producing fine wine, but we all have our preferences and at the end of the day if you forced me…
Category: german wine
The Queen is NOT Dead (German Hotties Vie for Wine Queen Title)
You’re going to be hearing quite a bit about German wine here on the virtual pages of 1WineDude this month. This is due primarily to the fact that German wines totally rock right now, but is influenced primarily by the Twitter Taste Live events that are focusing on German Riesling during the month of October….
Postcard from Germany: Death and Rebirth in the Rheinhessen
A group of young, talented winemakers are on a mission to change the perception of wines from the Rheinhessen; a look at one of those winemakers reveals just how dramatic – and successful – that change might be… The first thing one notices about Alexander Gysler… is that he’s tall. Even for Germans this guy…
Postcard from Germany: A House Divided
High-end Mosel wine producers are (slowly) battling for the identity – and the future – of German Riesling. “We don’t aim to produce perfection,” Annegret Reh-Gartner told me over lunch at Schloss Marienlay, a beautiful estate on the Ruwer in Germany’s famed Mosel region. Annegret is the driving force behind Reichsgraf von Kesselstatt, a Mosel…