Perhaps more than any other grape, Riesling might very well be the most misunderstood and the most underappreciated. While a couple of companies-that-shall-not-be-named destroyed Riesling’s reputation by pumping their wines full of sugar decades ago, this varietal’s various styles ranging from dry to sweet predate that catastrophic era by many centuries.
We’ll be surveying Riesling from Austria, Alsace, and of course Germany, with the hopes of exploding your minds with how awesome Riesling can be, even when it has a bit of residual sugar. As a specialty bottle shop that’s come to specialize in German wines, we have access to some of the rarest Rieslings around, which will foreground this class. There’s good reason why 99.9% of wine geeks and pros declare their favorite varietal to be Riesling (that’s probably hyperbole, but only barely so): let an exploration of these wines obliterate the lamentable zeitgeist that plagues Riesling!