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Blind tasting, part 9 – Riesling
How to identify this characterful variety in its various guises, from Germany and elsewhere. Today’s lesson is devoted to one of the wine world’s most cherished varieties: Riesling. It’s also...
Samantha Cole-Johnson
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On Friday Richard Hemming published Humbrecht forecasts varietal evolution about the evolution of various grape varieties in Alsace, where they...
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Olivier Humbrecht MW, one of Alsace's stellar performers, as well as one of the France’s most articulate winemakers (see this...
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One consequence of the communications revolution is that news travels so fast. Thus it was only three hours after Jeanny/Johnny...
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I have been delightfully catching up on some of the 2007 whites that I have not so far reported on...
Nick on restaurants
This article was also published in the Financial Times. Restaurant de la Gare in the village of Guewenheim just west...
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Attentive readers of my recent Alsace 2007 tasting notes will have noticed that I was rather worried about how relatively...
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In my recent coverage of Alsace’s 2007s, both the tasting notes and the overview, I promised I’d publish tasting notes...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. See also my tasting notes on...
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Never let it be said that I ignore the wishes of purple pagers. Three months ago Mark Prust of Wales...
Nick on restaurants
This article was also published in the Financial Times. Colmar in landlocked Alsace in the east of France seemed the...
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While American wine writer Dan Berger and the US-based International Riesling Foundation try to draw up a Riesling Taste Scale...
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Any wine lover within striking distance of Basel or Alsace should think seriously about a trip to the Restaurant de...
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The Hugel family, based in Riquewihr, north of Colmar, has been making wine in Alsace since the mid 17th century...
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Many of the winegrowers of Ammerschwihr in Alsace will have thrown their hats in the air on 12 January when...
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