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A 1959 German wine label
Jon Hicke, Vancouver:
Hi Jancis, glad to hear you're well. While touring parts of wine country in Germany on a recent vacation, we ate at the Schwarzer Hahn at the Hotel Deidesheimer Hof. While the food was good, if formal, the wine list was impressively deep and unusual. It listed an Eltville 1959er Kiedricher Gräfenberg Riesling Auslese from the Rheingau which we had to try because, as my partner noted, "they don't make those anymore." How strange to try a wine that would have grown up to watch the Berlin Wall both rise and fall.
A question though: any idea why the term "Naturrein" was used on the...
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