Dense and focused nose offering typicity with intense minerality and florality. Combines power and finesse in palate. Balanced with lively acidity, medium+ body and medium+ alcohol. Dense, well defined and well structured wine that will evolve over the next decade. Ioannis Karakasis WHO: Schloss Johannisberg WHAT: Riesling WHERE: Germany, Rheingau
While most classic wine regions of the Old World, such as Bordeaux, Rioja and Tuscany, focus on dry reds, the Rheingau, in Germany, is one of the very few classic regions producing primarily top-class white wines. These wines span sweetness levels from dry to off-dry to dessert. They are characterized
Pale but very bright golden in color. The nose is very quite floral, white flowers over stone fruit. Just-ripe peach, some apples, and honeysuckle lead on the palate. It is a bit flaccid on the mid-palate, then picks back up-read more-
An interesting wine, one that changes significantly with its temperature. Chilled, it leads with white flowers and lychee, trending to Meyer lemon on the mid-palate, all with an underlying pear. Acids are light, residual sugar evident, but all pleasantly so.-read more-
Human beings, as a whole, love sweet. Studies have shown that newborn babies, when given a choice, prefer sugar water over milk. We begin life with a sweet tooth, even while that bud is still locked inside the confines of-read more-
This has a lovely floral nose, magnolia and roses, toffee, and the tiniest hint of petrol. On the palate it is off-dry, with very subtle creamy citrus, more key lime pie than key lime, moving toward apple on the mid-palate,-read more-
This wine was tasted for Open That Bottle Night 2011 on Palate Press: the online wine magazine. Age shows through the color, which is very dark, like a tawny port. On the nose it smells a little oxidized, a bit-read more-
In preparation for Open That Bottle Night (live, only on Palate Press; Saturday, February 26 from 7 pm - 10 pm EST), David Honig, publisher of Palate Press, shares some information on the bottle he plans to open for the event.-read more-