December, 2010

by: Dan Berger One of the nation’s most important and fast-growing wine categories is Dry Riesling. Right behind it is Medium Dry Riesling. We needn’t recount the number of places that can make this excellent wine, with its great opportunity as an alternative white as well as a wine of enormous cellar potential. So the [...]

By Angelo Pavan, Winemaker, Cave Spring Cellars, Ontario, Canada Icewine is one of Nature’s truly great gifts of winter and can only be produced in wine growing areas where winters are moderately cold, but not too cold to damage the vines. Hence, there are very few wine regions around the world that can consistently produce [...]

Riesling Challenge, 19 December 2010, Waipara, New Zealand This is a limited competition between 12 of New Zealand’s top Riesling producers to craft a wine from one block of grapes to show off their individual skill and the flexibility of the Riesling grape.  www.rieslingchallenge.co.nz. 2011 Riesling Experience, 9-10 June, 2011, Brock University, St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada Famed [...]

Wine Spectator Top 100, and Wine & Spirits Magazine Riesling Ratings Riesling is the fastest growing wine in the United States, and reviews by major media increasingly focus on Riesling producers and their wines. The Wine Spectator’s “Top 100 Wines of 2010” include five Rieslings from four different regions (Alsace, Finger Lakes, Mosel, and Rheingau). The December [...]