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Review: Dr. Von Bassermann-Jordan 2008 Riesling trocken

by Marisa D'Vari20 September 2009
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 Riesling Wine: Dry or Sweet?
Do you like Riesling wine? If so, the next question would be which type? As you are aware, Riesling can be bone dry or as sweet and thick as honey.
And an even sharper question may be how you prefer your Riesling to be packaged? The scary looking, but traditional, labels with [...]

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Riesling: New Taste Profile

by Marisa D'Vari11 May 2009

Quick! Imagine yourself in a restaurant or wine shop. You want a Riesling wine, yet you are savvy enough to know this grape lends itself to luxuriously rich dessert wines or bone dry wines with incredible mineral content. Just looking…

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Wine pairing with Jacob’s Creek winemaker & Australian celebrity chefs

by Marisa D'Vari25 January 2009

“Gorgeous mansion!” a woman says, accepting a tall flute of Jacob’s Creek Sparkling Chardonnay Pinot Noir from a server in a starched white jacket. We are standing in the hallway of the Honorable John Olsen, Australian Consul General, New York,…

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International Riesling Foundation Tasting

by Marisa D'Vari2 December 2008
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  Wine afficianados in NYC are so lucky that the Riesling Foundation organizes a tasting featuring Riesling producers from around the world. Germany, Alsace Washington State, Australia, South Africa, Long Island and the Finger Lakes were all represented.

On a personal note, it was great to re-visit the excellent wines I experienced in Germany a few [...]

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A visit to Weingut Donnhoff

by Marisa D'Vari13 October 2008
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“Nature or nurture,” you might ask, wondering about the temperament of a child or the elements that go into a particularly delicious, well balanced wine. Today’s wine world is often a hotbed of deception. For example, if you find yourself…

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A Tale of Two Schlösser

by Marisa D'Vari28 September 2008
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In Germany, the word “schloss” means castle or “manor house.” These are historic structures, many first built during the Roman times near the very best vineyards in the land. The idea was to create a grand estate to showcase the…

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Conversations about Hochheim Riesling with Dr. Michel

by Marisa D'Vari28 September 2008
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Some German wine makers offer you a tutored tasting of their latest vintage, explaining the wines as you both taste in unison. Dr. Franz Werner Michel welcomes guests to his Hochheim estate with a lineup of his premiere Riesling wines…

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Tasting Riesling with Jakob Schneider Jr. in Nahe, Germany

by Marisa D'Vari28 September 2008
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“When your first name is Jakob, you have no choice but to go into the family business,” says Jakob Schneider Jr. with a charming smile, the youngest in a long line of Weingut Jakob Schneiders in the Nahe region of…

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Inhaling wine with Johannes Leitz

by Marisa D'Vari28 September 2008
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“I almost prefer inhaling to actually tasting,“ Johannes Leitz told importer Thierry Thiese in an interview. “I can’t really love a wine regardless of how it tastes if it doesn’t excite me on the nose.” I find this quote represents…

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Riesling Unplugged! Talking Sharks Teeth with Martin Tesch

by Marisa D'Vari27 September 2008
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“The man pictured on this wine bottle’s label looks familiar!” I think to myself, peering at the wine bottle with a picture of a somewhat scary looking gentleman in a stiff white shirt and black jacket on the label. Dracula?…

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Discovering Kendermann: Behind the Scenes of a Best Selling Brand

by Marisa D'Vari26 September 2008
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When most wine aficionados visit Germany to meet their favorite producers, they often find themselves knocking at a rustic looking door, with the winemaker/owner or his wife jumping up from the lunch table to welcome the visitor inside. Things are…

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Visit to Weingut Strub in Rheinhessen

by Marisa D'Vari26 September 2008
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If you’ve been in the wine world for a while, you have experienced the Chardonnay craze, the Merlot madness, and the Pinot Noir obsession ignited by a certain popular film. Perhaps you have come to love Sauvignon Blanc so intimately…

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Is Eric Asimov hanging out with too many NYT Style Writers?

by Marisa D'Vari20 January 2007

Okay, we all love the NYT for the style section on Sundays and Thursdays, Bruni’s reviews on Wednesdays and Eric Asimov’s increasingly colorful wine columns. Had to snicker, though, in the 1/17/07 column when, speaking of the sweetness in an…

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