This is a Riesling based white blend that is a little on the sweet, apple juice side of delicious, but it’s the perfect compliment to the Latkes. I picked it up for $11 at BevMo. You may want to try it out the next time you’re doing a salty/savory dish. The sweetness and ac...
You would never believe this juice was bottled nearly six years ago. The wine exudes freshness and bursts like a citrus-y pop-rock on the tongue: zippy and bright with grapefruit, lemon, lime and green apple. As the wine opens and warms, toast and a touch of honey shine through with ...
So, if you see “Prädikatswein” or “Qualitätswein” on the label, this is basic quality German juice! As you go higher up the rungs of these two quality classifications, you’ll find that quality is dependent on two factors: the ripeness/quality of the grapes and the regional sp...
a three-part series of verticals devoted to the “somewhereness”, to use Matt Kramer’s brilliant neologism. The somewhereness of wine expressed through two different grape varieties in the same terroir, as well as one grape variety in two ...
The trend for varietals means that most bottles you buy nowadays have some information on the grapes; Riesling wines in Germany and Alsace, where the grape was historically grown, were always labelled as such because of the prestige of the variety. Riesling grapes have a reputation of being ...