Comments on: Postcard from Germany: How German Wine Laws Lie

By: Restaurant Gemelli: A Fusion of Italian and Portuguese Cooking in Lisbon : Wine Blog Reviews

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:37:53 +0000

[...] we were served an interesting Italian white made from 100% Sylvaner that was reminiscent of a German Auslese. As for our entrée, it couldn’t have been a better fusion of Portuguese and Italian cuisine. [...]

By: Restaurant Gemelli: A Fusion of Italian and Portuguese Cooking in Lisbon - Catavino

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:37:54 +0000

By: Postcard from Germany: A House Divided | 1 Wine Dude

Postcard from Germany: A House Divided | 1 Wine Dude — Wed, 27 May 2009 10:02:22 +0000

[...] Some of those dry wines are themselves pretty bad, of course.

By: 1WineDude

1WineDude — Tue, 19 May 2009 16:26:53 +0000

Yeah, which in any of the circumstances I'm running into here this week, makes NO sense whatsoever. Some of these Kabinetts have been stellar and surprisingly ripe in terms of fruit. Crazy…

By: 1WineDude

1WineDude — Tue, 19 May 2009 16:24:40 +0000

You know what, we had a *great* discussion today with Annegret Reh-Gartner at the gorgeous Reichsgraf von Kesselstatt in the Mosel about the same thing. Her view is that the VDP is setting the right vision for the future of fine wine classification for high-end Riesling wine in Germany, in that if used properly and by enough producers it could help with both the geographic confusion and the issues that make navigating the quality pyramid difficult. My view was that the VDP is old enough to have done this already if it was going to work – which given the sloooooooow pace of change in Germany might be a misguided viewpoint.

Cheers!