Comments on: Open wine Riesling write-up

By: Open wine 3 write-up: Baron de Ley Rioja and “GruVee” wine from 1983 from Sour Grapes - an Irish wine blog covering wine in Ireland, wine tasting, wine facts and wine recommendations

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:27:02 +0000

[...] This one smelled of flowers and honey and tasted a little of Gewurtztraminer like spice at the end (Gewurtz is another grape variety grown in Alsace that generally has a distinctive spiciness). Overall, pretty good and similar to last month’s Meyer-Fonné ‘04 from Alsace [...]

By: Lar

Lar — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:24:20 +0000

And all they’d need is a treaty from Versailles to motivate them to reclaim those vines!

By: David Barrett

David Barrett — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:11:46 +0000

Of course, there’s still plenty of Germans who’ll claim that wine from the Alsace is also wine from Germany…

By: Lar

Lar — Fri, 30 May 2008 08:47:46 +0000

Best of luck with the Cork tasting, Elke.

Make sure you have spittoons!

By: Elke

Elke — Fri, 30 May 2008 08:19:32 +0000

Hi Lar, wish I could have been there. I certainly believe that the Germans have improved their Riesling immensly but this needs to be tested of course ;-). The Cork wine tasting is on tomorrow and we will have a majority of Italian wines…will keep you posted …

Congrats on the sencond success….

Elke