August, 2009

By Dan Berger A complainant wrote to me recently to say that my comments that there were a plethora of fascinating Rieslings from many places in the world were, in his words, mindless. His point was that there was but one Riesling and it came from Germany, and that all others were mere pretenders. And, [...]

By Dan Berger I opened a bottle of Spanish Sherry the other day that had on its front label the words “Medium Dry.” And this brought to mind a possible problem with the International Riesling Foundation’s taste scale, which has so far been seen as a great addition to the wine labels of numerous wineries [...]