Aby and I headed to the Berkmann Portofolio tasting at The Waldorf a few weeks back. We were running late, but managed to get there for the last hour, where we produced Vinoteca’s first ever wine tasting video. I am not the most comfortable person on camera, espeacially faced with the challenge of tasting wine, and then trying to express verbally what I am smelling, tasting, and my general impression ofthat particular wine. What I am trying to tell you in this video is that I like the wine, and that it is their ‘Prima’ Riesling, which is what they call their ‘German’ style Riesling, meaning that there is residual sugar unlike their dry Pewsey Vale Riesling (which we stock at Vinoteca). How they achieve this sweetness is by harvesting the grapes earlier than the ones for their dry riesling, this way they will be higher in acidity, and when fermenting the wine they will stop before all the sugar is gone, leaving an off dry wine, lower in alcohol, that is balanced thanks to the high acidity, leaving your palate fresh and clean!
Enjoy!
Caitlin
2 Comments
March 4, 2009 at 10:40 pm
Where’s Charlie?
March 13, 2009 at 3:09 pm
Good job Cait! I like your earrings!