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Some Young Punks, Passion has Red Lips, 2011
Should I resist the tired cliché, should I raise above the overused joke? Even if I were that strong and even if I were not secretly in love with clichés I still could not do it in this case. Even my...
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Zehnthof Luckert, Sulzfelder Cyriakusberg, Sauvignon Blanc, trocken, 2011
Cheap Pinot Grigio, oaked Chardonnay and fruitbomb Sauvignon Blanc are the three banes of the popular white wine world. For my day job I regularly attend functions organised by public sector bodies who...
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Weingut Ziereisen, Viviser, 2010
Another wine from the Gutedel (=Chasselas) grape? Indeed. The more serious and objective international wine critics may point out that two wines from this rather pedestrian grape are already too much,...
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Weingut Störrlein & Krenig, Randersacker Pfülben, Silvaner Spätlese trocken,...
You've had to wait unusually long since the last review, so we owe you something nice. How does a bottle of Germany's most underestimated grape variety sound? Silvaner, and our more regular readers are...
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Weingut Salwey, Weißburgunder RS, 2008
I always love it when a review is a first: To be able to report on a winery, or better still, a whole region of the wine world, that we have not yet touched upon. A mere check-up review, so to speak,...
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I'll be back: Shopping for German wine at Schneider's of Capitol Hill,...
You and I have unfinished business. Don't be afraid, gentle reader, the unfinished business is not with you and I won't come after you with my katana - just to put those of you familiar with movie...
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Mainzer St. Alban, Spätlese 2009
Supermarkets are fascinating. They are evil, they are convenient, they are uniform, they are where we shop. Not all of us, not all of the time, but still often enough that the big chains have a...
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Ansgar Clüsserath, Trittenheimer Apotheke, Riesling Kabinett, 2011
Remember that one perfect meal? That special memory that has been with you for years? A taste or texture you can still recall? Some treasure these memories so much that they do not want to go back to...
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Weingut Runkel, Weißer Burgunder trocken, 2010
I like Pinot Blanc. It's is that simple. As our regular readers know I am always in danger of rambling on for too long, so I will keep this short. I really like Pinot Blanc. In Germany it is called...
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Not tasting wine at the Samos Wine Museum
A map, a camera and a wine glass. These are the essential tools of the civilised traveller. The map will get you there, the camera will capture it - and the wine glass is used to enjoy the exciting...
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Heymann-Löwenstein, Fantasie der Schieferterrassen, Rieslingsekt
Marxists and luxurious sparkling wine surely don't mix well? Well, they do. As Champagne consumers the leaders of Eastern block and other communists states did and do quite well, thank you, although...
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Weingut R & A Pfaffl, Grüner Veltliner Hundsleiten, 2011
One of the glories of being a wine amateur without an ounce of professionalism is the childish pleasure you can take in things that more knowledgeable folk take for granted. Recently for instance, I...
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Sainsbury's Taste the Difference Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi Classico, 2011
It could have been the cheap Pinot Grigio. It could have been all the talk about boring Super Tuscans. Or maybe it was growing up in Munich where everyone who wanted to be trendy drank Italian wine and...
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Leitz, Rüdesheimer Riesling trocken, 2010
When I woke up this morning to the news of Barack Obama being re-elected I immediately realised how I had to write tonight's Riesling review. It would have to be about expectation management. This is...
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Weingut Prieler, Leithaberg rot, 2005
Seven years is not a biblical age for a bottle serious red wine, but the Austrian wine scene being obsessed with youth and each new vintage, it is not quite so easy to find older bottles of interesting...
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Pairing Wine and Music? "Tasting Notes" radio programme launch at Laithwaites...
Music does not taste. Wine does. Rather obvious, but not nearly as simple as you may think. What we perceive as the taste of wine is actually our brain combining all sorts of information and the tongue...
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Weingut Kistenmacher & Hengerer, Cabernet Franc "Frederic", 2008
It's well known that for the first few years after planting, vines yield bumper harvests, but cannot quite produce the concentrated, characterful flavour in their grapes that old vines are renowned...
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Josef Rosch, Riesling brut, 2008
Germany, for those of you who did not know it, produces some excellent sparkling wine in a style similar to Champagne. It also produces a unique fizze ("Sekt") from Riesling, called "Rieslingsekt"....
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Weingut Darting, Dürkheimer Hochbenn, Muskateller Eiswein, 1999
"Torsten and Julian have this wine blog, and they mostly review sweet wines." This is how a friend introduced the Wine Rambler at a dinner party - much to my surprise as sweet wines make up only a...
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Weingut Ruck, Iphöfer Julius-Echter-Berg, Silvaner GG, 2009
Christmas has come early at the Wine Rambler. No, we haven't changed the calendar and yes I know it is almost Christmas anyway, so this line is less effective than it might have been in July. However,...
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