FEIRT, the Frankland Estate International Riesling Tasting held in Sydney, Australia is now established as the third major Rieslingfest to be held every three years, along with events in the Rheingau and Seattle (see Developments in Rieslingland). I finally managed to get to this excellent chance to wallow in some of the world’s finest Rieslings at the beginning of last month and have great pleasure in sharing my tasting notes from it below.
My colleague Stuart Pigott of Berlin has long played the major part in selecting the wines to be tasted at this event, originally dreamt up by...