Century of Riesling – the tasting notes
Wednesday 18 June 2008
This tasting at Schloss Johannisberg proved the greatness of Riesling. I will describe more of the background to it on Saturday.The tasting notes appear below in the order the wines were served, but I have to admit that the logic of the flights was never fully explained, although we did go roughly from dry to sweet. The background notes in italics tell us a great deal about the history of German Riesling and are based on what each wine producer told us about their wines. See the producers in my video, also published today.
FLIGHT ONE
1 Bassermann-Jordan...
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