Category Results for: Austrian Wine

 

Tasting Group: Austrian Grüner Veltliner

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010

Since we live in Washington State and often drink wines from Washington State, we want to make sure that we continue to hone our knowledge of the entire world of wine and maintain well-rounded palates in order to make us even more objective when we evaluate wines from Washington State. Therefore, we are thoroughly enjoying […]

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Riesling Rendezvous: Ageability of Riesling

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

During the recent Riesling Rendezvous, one of my favorite sessions was the Ageability of Riesling workshop, which made a strong case for the age worthiness of Riesling. In fact, Riesling is probably the most age worthy of all white wine varieties. This workshop, moderated by Stuart Pigott, featured two wines from nine different producers, one […]

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Riesling Rendezvous: Producers and Enthusiasts from Around the World Celebrate and Promote this Noble Grape

Monday, July 19th, 2010

The third Riesling Rendezvous, hosted by Chateau Ste. Michelle of Washington State and Dr. Loosen of Germany, was held last week in the Seattle area. Nearly 70 producers from seven countries and six U.S. states traveled to Washington State to celebrate, explore, and promote Riesling. While Riesling is enjoying a resurgence of sorts (currently, Riesling […]

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Grü V Olympics: Exploring Austrian Grüner Veltliner

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

Recently, we participated in an event focused on Austrian Grüner Veltliner. We, along with a group of fellow wine bloggers, were sent four Austrian Grüner Veltliners as part of the Grü V Olympics. A fun play on the recent winter Olympics, we were asked to taste the wines head-to-head and score them based on certain […]

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Wine Century Club Tasting II

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

We had so much fun exploring new wines in our first Wine Century Club Tasting that we decided to do it again. We headed over to K&L Wine Merchants to order another case of wine (actually a baker’s dozen this time), each bottle containing at least one grape variety that we had not previously tasted. […]

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