I, along with three or four other people (ok, it’s not that bad, it just feels that bad), profess to love Riesling, so much so that I actually purchase it with my own hard-earned cash. So I’m not the kind of wine writer to turn down a media invite to the Seattle-hosted Riesling Rendezvous event…
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The Riesling Up-And-Comers That You’re Probably Ignoring (Riesling Rendezvous 2013)
You’d think that, as a self-professed Riesling freak, I’d have been in a Happy Place that was damn near orgasmic in attending the 2013 Riesling Rendezvous in Seattle, as a media guest of the organizers. And you’d be right, of course. For Riesling lovers, this was “I’d better go change my pants again” kind of…
Turning Tables To Turning Heads (Trestle Thirty One 2015 Finger Lakes Riesling)
For Riesling lovers, the last four years in particular have been a good time to be alive. On one side of the shiny Riesling-fine-wine-world-market coin, Europe’s traditional flag-bearing regions of that grape been performing well; on the other side, we’ve seen the emergence of up-and-coming areas that, while far from wine-drinking household names, undoubtedly have…
Rocks & Riesling Proves That Rangen Riesling Rocks
So… we were talking about Riesling Rendezvous 2016, before we were so rudely interrupted by about a week of “real life.” RR 2016 provides some concurrent sessions, during which you can listen about and, usually, taste wines from particular Riesling-producing regions. I happened to get signed up for what was called “Rocks & Riesling: Exploring…