Riesling is my favourite white wine too Jancis , I’ve been enjoying fine German wines now for over 50 years. I have a couple of dozen bottles in my cellar so I’m looking forward to a good summer so I can enjoy them in my garden. I seem to remember Hugh Johnson saying that great German wines are wine for wines sake and food just gets in the way and I totally agree.
nothing beats a fine riesling. i just got back from the Mosel and the Rheinhessen and the beauty of the land is unrivaled in my opinion. I'm glad riesling is still overlooked otherwise I wouldn't be able to afford it. it is my favorite wine too.
@@timeisahumanconstruct9251 Haha that is true. Being able to buy kabinett riesling with that much expression of terroir for 15 euros is pretty awesome, when you compare it to many other famous wine regions
Great video. I LOVE ice wine, but have never yet bitten the bullet and bought a riesling (the extra $30-50 /half bottle always made me chicken out). Maybe I'm due. I tasted a TBA riesling, and it was something I'll never forget. For a working class guy like me, these wines are a luxury. But those are the things that make life worth it!
Great videos! We can learn so much from them. Thank you so much to go to the places, talk to the producers and explain their problems to the costumers. Some decades later, we can see that the new methods to close bottles are in principle good for the wine, but they are not sustainable. Real cork, and not plastic or metal, is the better option. We should avoid throwing metals and plastic to the garbage and polluting our planet. Real cork is biodegradable and sustainable, so it is the better option, despite the problem of the fungus, which it is in general quite unlikely for the average costumer. Wine stored for a long time in a humid cellar could have the risk, but nowadays we can keep cellars in a better condition. Would other methods be useful like topping the closed bottle cork with bee wax, to be removed before opening the bottle ?
. . . How so … ‘ over-written -?..’ and also, ‘ over-produced ‘. Not one iota of either imo; ‘informed and informative’, ‘clear and well-spoken’, ‘balanced and concise’.
