if you are interested in wine in general you simply got to try these delicious german white wines. and, you got to get used to the (pretty stupid) german wine categories. and here in germany there are many people that are really into wine disliking the categories aswell!

- qualitätswein/QbA (qualiy wine)
- kabinett (treasury or cabinet of nice wines)
- spätlese (late harvest)
- auslese (selection)
- beerenausleese (selection of berries)
- trockenbeerenausleese (selection of dry berries)
- eiswein (icewine)

i prefer the 7 - 20 EURO pricerange, sometimes 25 euro. when i watch your show i'm always kind of blown away by the prices for european wine in the US in general. boy oh boy, you're - mostly - paying double the price we do!! disributor profits i guess.

for example, according to the above mentioned price range, i mostly drink QbA, kabinett, auslese sometimes spätlese. for a auslese or trockenbeerenauslese of riesling in in a small bottle (0,375) i'd pay a about 40 - 60 euros.

i think GV is doing a pretty good job on german whites, thou there could be more german wine on the show ;)

Your "sniffy sniff" and "swooshy swish" looks cool. Your spitting looks disgusting, but it fits nicely in a pool. But really now, do you need to do it in a football helmet? You either hate or love the Jets, I cannot tell. What I can say is that your commentary is outstanding. Great job!

QOTD: Konvikt Piesporter Goldtröpfchen Auslese 1971, first auslese i've had but excellent balance of sweetness.

qotd: ummm a vertikal riesling either spatlese or auslese i don't remember.

My German heritage for the win! Soon as I saw this episode I knew it would be a good day for you. I own a couple 2005 JJ Prum Ausleses that I cant wait to open in the future. German reislings are def. a wine I could drink almost every day. QOTD: The German bubbly I mentioned a few episodes back..... belch. However, that will not stop me from hording German wines for future ( and sometimes current ) drinkage.

good show mott
3 x 90 plus point white wines. specdracula. i'm gonna look out for some spaetlese rieslings. thanks.
recent good riesling = kung fu girl riesling

mike russell
tokyo

Thanks for another good show GV. I always get all those German wine terms mixed up. QOTD: Cant remember

I can't remember the last German wine that I had. But it was most likely a Riesling.

dont remember having had a reisling yet...its on my list to try!

QOTD: This summer I had a Washington State Riesling that had some sort of association with a German producer. Also this summer I bought Wein & Sektgut Thielen Merlen Fettgarten Riesling Spatlese. I haven't opened it yet.

QOTD: yeah, I'm little late but I am way behind with wltv after vacation, so, its at this very moment 2007 Weissburgunder Joachim Heger from the German region of Baden. This is more light than Riesling but for me, besides a good Muskateller it is the perfect summer wine. Real good Weissburgunder can easy knock out good Rieslings!

QOTD: yeah, I'm little late but I am way behind with wltv after vacation, so, its at this very moment 2007 Weissburgunder Joachim Heger from the german region of Baden. This is more light than Riesling but for me, besides a good Muskateller it is the perfect summer wine. Real good Weissburgunder kan easy knock out good Rieslings!

It was a gewurtstraminer and it was awful. I will certainly try more of them though, to give them a chance!

Compared to New World style riesling I love the subtlety and acidity of the German Rieslings. Hearing the comment about what is it about the TBA - not just the sugar, perhaps it is the sugar that really helps to transport all of the other tastes so well.

Also to watch out for is Spätbergunder / Pinot Noir. German Red wine has a recent history of being quite ordinary however I am discovering a lot of great Spätburgunder that is really inline with more modern expectations and also demonstration world class German winmaking expertise.

Excellent show Gary

QOTD: I drink a heap of German Reislings. Living in HK they're a must for being so food friendly and so diverse. For Chinese, Thai and Indian they're perfect; it's just a shame that the locals in HK don't relise this and insist on drinking Bordeaux andonly Bordeaux.

Cheers
Andrew

QOTD - Just so happens I enjoyed a spatlese german riesling on Friday (weingut familie rauen). It was so good I practically gulped it (how gauche). At only 9% alcohol I felt I could enjoy with abandon.

Love Riesling, love Spätlese - nothing more to say. Thanks for the show Gary, more Riesling love is appreciated!

QOTD - Weingut Spohr, Christians 2005 Gewürztraminer Spätlese Feinherb, drinking it tonight watching the show!
The last Riesling was the St. Johanner Abtey 2007 Spätlese which I had at my parents 2 weeks ago. Not bad, but the Gewurtz was better!

GV - I am also a big fan of the German Rieslings. They have so much versatility.

QOTD - Max Ferd Richter Spaetlese - 2003. Very good wine.

Pronunciation tip - I worked in Germany for 3 years.
Spaetlese (inserting an "e" because I don't have an umlot (2 litte dots) on my computer) is pronounced Shpetleezuh.
Auslese is pronounced Owzleezuh.

This was a GREAT EP, and very nice to see all three performed well. Always good when you mix it up with some whites for late summer drinking. QOTD: 2005 Bernard Eifel Schweicher Annaberg Riesling Alte Reben von Rotem Schiefer, which I purchased at the WL customer appreciation sale. Really liked this, especially for the price of 15 dollars. Beautiful, floral, light, and just the right amount of acidity and a mild sweetness to pair with a wide variety of foods. Apparently others liked it too because it was sold out by the time I went back for more two weeks later.

Great episode. Am really appreciating the regional diferences in various grapes.

QOTD - Schmitt Sohne 2005 but will be exploring that a bit more in the future.

I got recommended by you gary to try a riesling spätlase as a first wine, and somehow we managed to have one in the house at the time, what i noticed was was that it was a trocken, i didn't know what this was at the time and what i tasted was pretty much just apple vinager and it wasn't that pleasant.

Love the color on that Robert Weil bottle. Blue and Gold label "Remeber the Titans"!!!

QOTD: I honestly can't remeber the last German wine I had.

A very seasonal episode. Thanks!

Great show again and love to hear that you like german wine (being from germany).

qotd: uh, I had some german wines in my life but since I only recently started at corkd I can not recall the last one I had (the next one is going to be a Mosel Riesling for sure, though).

Speaking of Germany, one should try Federweisser (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federweisser) - it's that time of year. I don't know if the american vineyards produce this, though, or if it's being imported (I doubt it).

Nice to see you give the german Reislings some camera time. I'm really falling in love with with german reislings, so versital and just plain enjoyable!!

QOTD : just had a reisling taste off a couple of weekends ago. And the germans were showing strong with the 1999 Dr. F Weins Prum Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Kabinett & 2003 Gunderloch Nackenheim Rothenberg Riesling Spatlese kicking the New Zealand and WA butts!

Great episode! We are planning another trip to the Rheingau with some friends next weekend. We are going to visit some wineries and stock up on 06 and 07 Rieslings. By the way - don't worry, even in German the names of the different vineyards sound very strange ;-)

QOTD: My last German wine was a "2004 Schloss Johannisberger Riesling Rotlack Kabinett Halbtrocken", fairly inexpensive at EUR 14,50 and great QPR. A German wine that really took me by surprise for its quality a couple of weeks ago was a German sparkling wine though, the champagne-like "2006 Wilhelmshof Blanc de Noir Pinot Brut".

QOTD: Shiava..... loved it. Much different than anything I have had in the past. Really looking forward to trying more German wines.

Thanks for another great show.

QOTD - I was in Germany during May and spent 4 days at the Mosel and Rhein. So I had a lot of reislings then. Can't remember which one was last. Most were good and inexpensive, even at restaurants.

QOTD: NOt a big fan of the Spatlese Rieslings but I do like the Trocken Rieslings from both the Rheingau and the Mosel. I tried 14 different Rieslings at Dirk Richter's place in 2006 and it was a great experience, although I only liked the first 4-5 wines (which were all Trocken with, I think, one Spatlese).

Love German riesling and have a number of 2001's and 2005's put away. the last one was a 2001 kabinett, but I can't remember whose it was.

2003 Bert Simon auslese,wonderful

Almost there...only one episode to go! BTW...Gary I like your T, what is that?

QOTD: I dont remember the last one I had...it was at a tasting.

Ciao Gary

Enjoyed this, just got back from the Rheingau on Sunday night so loved to see you do this, and then Barbersco following! Nice.

Anyway, I did a search for Eiswein and saw you havent done an episode. Seeing as their is Canadian, Austrian, NZ, Austrian and Germany Eiswein now it would be great to see what you think of the terroir differences. Maybe German frost is nicer than Canadian frost?!

I haven't checked to see if WineLibrary sells Eiswein thou!

Adios
Sarah

Haven't had one in a while... time to go out and get one!
Nice one on the 3 from 3!

St. Urbans-Hof 2007 Ockfener Bockstein Kabinett

The 2005 vintage of this wine was one of those "Ah-hah!" experiences for me. I had read lots of comments about the wine being off-dry to sweet with good acidity, and never understood this paradox until tasting this wine. Nice flavors of lime, apricots and minerals, with a back-of-the-palate acidity that makes your mouthwater. I absolutely love this producer. Will have to try a Spätlese and an Auslese from them, too.

Also prefer Mosels to Rheingaus.

For bone-dry Riesling, you have to dry a Rudi Pichler Riesling from Austria - very nice!

QOTD - Last German wine I sampled was the 97 Dr. Loosen Urziger Wurzgarten Spatlese, fruitiness nicely complemented with subtle kero/honey characters. I wonder how many Vayniacs are going to buy a "Trocken"beerenauslese thinking it's going to be dry - big surprise!!!!

QOTD: I had a 2005 Ratzenberger Steeger St. Jost Grosses Gewachs recently. Awesome.

2005 Joh. Jos. Prüm Riesling Auslese Mosel-Saar-Ruwer Wehlener Sonnenuhr and it was unbelievable I loved it so much that I picked up 6 bottles of the Gold Cap and have yet to try that and looking forward to it.

the one I love the most so far is the S.A. Prum blue slate Riesling.
It's the one with the smell of oil and fuel.....but it was awesome

QTD: I tried a Mosel Saar Ruwer 2005 Piesporter Treppchen Riesling Kabinett awhile ago... didn't care for it. Been meaning to try another one.

QOTD: I haven't yet had a German Reisling (I don't think). I've had a few NY and Pacific NW versions, which I've liked. But I'm still looking for that acid. So I think next time I'm shopping for wine I will look for a German.