Wines regularly get described by their aromas – floral, citrus, green apple, melon, herbal, cherry, plum and spice. But, Riesling – can it really including the aroma of petrol? A lot of people might assume a bottle of Riesling must have gone bad if...
Clean Slate Riesling ($12) This Clean Slate Riesling is from Mosel, Germany. The Mosel region has a great wine growing tradition of more than 2000 years, taken there by the Romans. It is recognized as the home of Riesling. The soil’s thin slate st...
2017 Ravines Wine Cellars White Springs Dry Riesling ($22.95) Ravines Wine Cellars is an artisanal winery in the flourishing, world-class wine region of the Finger Lakes, located in upstate New York. It is the passion of Morten & Lisa Hallgren...
Ever wonder what “Vin Sec” means on the label of a bottle of Riesling? In French it literally means ‘dry wine.’ Riesling is a wine that is most famously produced in Germany where nearly half the world’s Riesling grapes are grown. Other great produ...
2016 Amalaya Blanco ($12) Amalaya wines was founded in Argentina in 2010 by Donald Hess of the Hess Family Wine Estates. The grapes are grown in the Calchaquí Valley in the eastern foothills of the Andes mountain range at altitudes as high as 5580...
Germany is the home of Riesling, and still produces nearly half the world’s Riesling. But there’s another region that is well-known for its Riesling and that’s Alsace [Ahl-zahs] in France. Alsace is located east of Paris, along the border with Germa...
German Rieslings can be a bit confusing. Last time we took a look at the basic styles of German wines. Most notable was the German term “Trocken” that means dry (no residual sugar). So, if you are looking for a German Riesling that is not sweet, ...
2015 Gerd Anselmann Pfalz Trocken Riesling ($14) This German Riesling, from the region of Pfalz, is “Trocken” meaning dry (little to no residual sugar). So, while many German Rieslings are sweet, this is an example of one that, while having little...
Germany, where Riesling originated, today produces nearly half of the world’s Rieslings and ones that are considered the best the world has to offer. German Rieslings have bright acidity and equally big sweet fruit flavors of green apple, citrus an...
2015 Chateau Ste. Michelle Columbia Valley Riesling ($7)  This Riesling from Washington’s Columbia Valley is listed as being between Medium-dry and medium-sweet. So, remembering that ‘Dry...
Riesling is a wine that is most famously produced in Germany where nearly half the world’s Riesling grapes are grown. Other great producers of Riesling include the Alsace region of France, Australia, Austria, Canada and the United States. Riesling th...