Riesling - strong personality wine

January 19, 2007

Riesling vine Mentality and spirit combined with a great personality are always bound to make a great brand, revealing the value within. German mentality and spirit combined with great German personality are easily recognised in German wine. That goes double if we are talking about Riesling.

Riesling is Germany leading grape variety, known for its characteristic “transparency” in flavour and presentation of terroir.

Riesling normally ripens between late September and late October, but there are late harvests that can be picked as late as January. These late harvests are then turned, after the effect of the fungus Botrytis Cinerea (”noble rot”), or by freezing, and by the removal of water, into a richer wine.

These concentrated wines have more sugar, more acid (to balance all the sugar), more flavour and more complexity.

That and the fact that Riesling is rarely blended with other varietals, hardly ever exposed to commercial yeast and usually never exposed to oak flavour, make of Riesling a very strong wine. As powerful as the German spirit, Riesling is an imposing figure on the marquet, unique and proud by the exactingness of its obtaining.

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