Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
German wine growers are defying a slump in the European wine market which has dented sales in the continent's three big producers, Italy, France and Spain.
Box Wines (Free subscription) | 29/07/2008
Price: $19 Maker: F.W. Langguth Erben GmbH & Co. KG Varietal: Riesling Packaging: 3-liter box, push-button spigot Alcohol: 10.5% Our Rating: 8.2 out of 10 It’s taken us quite a while to get around to tasting Blue Nun Riesling, a non-vintage German wine that has been marketed in the U.S. for decades. This was in part because I tend to [...]
Barry's Wine Notes & Memories (Free subscription) | 28/07/2008
Name me one German wine region.... Mosel..you answer... Ok..another...Rheingau, Pfalz, Baden, Franken..maybe Ahr.....now you are struggling..(unless you are a complete wine freak). Mittelrhein would not be in there. ..If it is..name me one grower......see what I mean. The wines were never that great...bottled only for the masses or used for that 'sekt' stuff. The renaissance was started by Peter Jost...
Élevage (Free subscription) | 19/07/2008
The other night I opened a bottle of 2001 J.L. Wolf Riesling Wachenheimer , a dry German wine from this Loosen-owned property in the Pfalz region. You should be happy I'm not like some Boston-based wine writers who can't resist puns . Don't blame me for his affliction . It's not my Pfalz! Sigh. The back label of this wine suggests it's actually Wachenheimer Goldbachel Rielsing Spatlese (AP 16 02 for...
Another Food Blog (Free subscription) | 14/07/2008
I am intrigued by the wines you can buy in a country itself, and the wines from that country that UK supermarkets choose to stock. Most striking perhaps is German wine, and wines from the Moselle in particular. In the UK supermarkets, these wines are generally acid-dry or sugar-sweet, with little in between. The few good ones cost upwards of £8. This [...]
Golly s Wine Drops (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
So France lost the yellow jersey today in the first time trial. I had English sparkling wine on ice ready for Millar to take over, but Stefan Schumacher rather spoiled that party. I have no German wine in the house, and as I'm told Schumacher has a skeleton or two in his cupboard (and it's mean to keep your mother and her prescribing pad in a cupboard), I'm not motivated to go out and get any. France...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
If you think of German wine as cheap, sweet and basic, you're in excellent company. When the go-ahead German wine company Zimmermann-Graeff & Müller commissioned market researchers to find out what UK consumers thought of German wine, "cheap, sweet and basic" came the response. Ten years ago, it looked as if Germany was starting to turn a corner. With unlovely lieb at an average price of £2.75 per...
Bay Area Bites (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008
Lotus of Siam, a Thai restaurant in Las Vegas, has been lauded as the best Thai restaurant in the country by some of the most well-known critics around. It is known for it’s excruciating attention to detail with sauces and depth of flavor, its expansive German wine list, and its low-key, unpretentious approach. I’d [...]
JancisRobinson.com (Free subscription) | 16/06/2008
...with some fabulous relics from deep in the woods above the Rhine.
JancisRobinson.com (Free subscription) | 13/06/2008
I have already tasted hundreds of 2007 German wines and am very excited about many of them, in a wide range of sweetness levels. A week tomorrow I’ll outline exactly why the strange 2007 growing season suited quality-conscious, risk-taking German wine producers, but all next week you’ll find an array of videos and tasting notes of some quite extraordinary German wines. Not just 2007s but marvels from...
Rockss and Fruit (Free subscription) | 17/05/2008
Thanks to the Hanes for pointing me in the direction of this website. Wow . . .Hanes gets 2 mentions in a week. He is a favorite here and a great guy. Would love to see him comment . . .even anonymously.
Golly s Wine Drops (Free subscription) | 14/05/2008
I love researchers. They have such a cool job. They get to do the kind of silly things people do at university because they're silly, but they get paid for it. Professor North from Heriot Watt University - of the 'play oompah music to sell German wine' fame has been playing music to people as they taste wines and testing the effect. If you play strong and powerful music people like big Cabernet Sauvignons...
Frejas Blog (Free subscription) | 23/04/2008
If you are hankering for some fine German wine and food, you should take a look at the Rheinhessen region of southwestern Germany. Who knows, you may even find a bargain, and I think that you'll enjoy yourself on this fact-filled wine education tour in which we review a local red Dornfelder. Rheinhessen is a relatively [...]
Élevage (Free subscription) | 21/04/2008
No, not high-end rieslings from the famous German wine auctions. You go do that. I’m simply talking about buying wines from online auctioneers like Winebid.com . I got into it a number of years ago when Winebid was new and I didn’t have a mortgage or kids. Being me, I never spent much money. But I was amazed then at what I could buy for relative peanuts. For $20 or less back then, I got things like:...
Frejas Blog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2008
If you are in the market for fine German wine and food, you should consider the Baden region of southeastern Germany. You may find a bargain, and I know that you will enjoy yourself fun on this fact-filled wine education tour in which we review a local Pinot Noir. The Baden region is the southernmost wine-growing [...]
