Crémant d'Alsace - the affordable and sparkling French alternative to Champagne.
I am not going to get emotional. Pinot Noir is a cerebral wine. Or so I often read.
Now, then, here is a fact which truly deserves your attention: in 2010 New York's Finger Lakes region had a warmer growing season than either California's Napa or Sonaoma Valley. Perfect for red wines. And good Riesling was made, too.
In a general meeting yesterday the VDP determined the continuation of its own classification of wines. The new classification will come into effect with the 2012 vintage.
Riesling AC hosted a blind tasting of twelve 2010 Rieslings from Germany recently and following are tasting notes of these wines.
At a tasting of VDP Rieslings last September I thoroughly discredited myself amongst a group of Masters of Wine by being unable to show any excitement for the wine considered to be the holy grail.
A gasp of relief. In 2011 most German growers were able to pick more grapes than they were able to get from their coulure-riddled vines in 2010, when yields had been historically low.
