Winemaker: Ernst Loosen
Price Range of 750ml bottle, ex-tax in USD
Average: $12
From: $11 To: $14
Search Rank 7713
Over all vintages, this was the
7713th most popular wine on Wine-Searcher last year.
Search rank last month: 7487th
Riesling is a light-skinned, aromatic grape of German origin which is - if the majority of top wine critics are to be believed - the world's finest white wine grape variety.
For many, the claim above may seem at odds with the sea of chaptalized, low-quality wine exported from Germany in the late 20th century. In truth, very little of that infamous wine was Riesling at all (Riesling became a scapegoat for higher-yielding grapes such as Müller-Thurgau and Silvaner), but the reputation has nonetheless stuck. No less unshakeable a stereotype is of Riesling as just a 'sweet' grape, used only to make sticky wines. Although founded on a basic truth ( ... more
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Pfalz wine region
Known as the Rhine Palatinate (or in German, Rheinpfalz) until 1992, Pfalz has 58,000 acres (23,400ha) of land planted to grapevines, making it the second largest wine region in Germany. (Rheinhessen is the largest.)
Pfalz extends from Worms at the northern junction with Rheinhessen, all the way south to Schweigen. It is here that the Schweigener Sonnenberg vineyard reaches across the French border into what is modern-day Alsace. In fact, it has been said that Pfalz has more in common with Alsace as a wine region that it does with other viticultural centres in Germany.
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Germany wine region
Germany has a long and illustrious history of winemaking, a fact that is often overlooked due to a period of decidedly lesser glory during the 1970s and 1980s.
The Romans first established vineyards around Trier on the Mosel river, and by the third century AD plantings had spread to the Mosel and its tributaries. During the Middle Ages the Christian church, particularly the Cistercian and Bened ... more
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