Professional Wine Consultants - Milwaukee Wine - Sommeliers

I can’t stop praising this grape. I sound like a zealot. Riesling isn’t the most consistent wine on the planet, admittedly there is an ocean of Riesling based booze infused sticky icky grape juice that many an unsuspecting burgeoning wine lover has had forced upon them, only to gag at the sheer lack of balance and gooey flab of this innocuous beverage that a friend or family member kindly was trying to pass off as wine. That said, few wines reach such dazzling heights of complexity or are so painfully cultivated in harsh conditions for miniscule yields. The lesson is that you can’t write off an entire style of wine because you’ve had a few wretched examples… or possibly many wretched examples. There are great Rieslings out there! They are relatively easy to find. (more…)