Riesling may be the GREATEST wine grape in the world. Its homeland is Germany but there are some stunning American Rieslings too. Who will win in a blind tasting?
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Wines featured in this episode:
Tsillan, Lake Chelan Riesling 2021
Claar Cellars, White Bluffs Riesling 2021
Dineen Vineyard, Riesling 2021
Barnard Griffin, Riesling 2020
Goose Ridge, Riesling 2021
Poet’s Leap, Riesling 2020
Efeste, Evergreen Vineyard Riesling 2021
Sleight of Hand, the Magician Riesling 2020
Sin Banderas, Riesling 2021
Von Winning, Forster Riesling 2021
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Chateau Ste. Michelle, Dry Riesling 2021
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Eroica, Riesling 2021
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00:00 Intro
00:20 Riesling
02:08 Wine Glasses for Riesling
02:34 Blind Tasting Riesling
07:47 Blind Tasting Reveal
12:43 The top THREE
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32 Comments
Want more RIESLING??!! Check this out: https://youtu.be/lhIjSts_EoY
I may love my reds, but Riesling is my number 1 wine grape. When I borrowed my first bottle out of my dad’s cellar it was a German Riesling. I was 14 😂 I would recommend the 2021 Figgins Estate Riesling. A little more money but worth it in my opinion.
Riesling not good with Steak??😳
have you ever tried an aged Spätlese with a steak from the grill?
If not, you’re missing out🥺
Great content! One little thing; the cuts to close up of your hands are a tiny bit jarring.
Cooool
Love the energy and excitement as well😀
Not sure I had a lot of Riesling wines from the US 😉 Thanks for this nice introduction… seems there are plenty of great QPR there
I've been watching your videos for the last few weeks and I have been enjoying them a lot. Thank you for that!
Did hit the subscribe button after today's upload. Gotta love Riesling!
Fun tasting would like to see Finger Lakes and northern Michigan in there to see how they measure up
Great video! Riesling is underrated in the US. Do you like Finger Lakes Rieslings? I think I may prefer them to Washington State. I'd love to see a Finger Lakes video.
Great video. Living in Germany I love Rieslings as well. I do want to disagree with the lettering instead of numbering. For me saying wine number 10 is 6th is easier than wine J. I get what the recommender was trying to say but you don’t say 6 was 2. If anything you say wine 6 is 2nd which is completely different. And I also think numbers work better internationally but you know where your audience is. Anyways, keep up the great work.
In 2020, my tasting crew wanted to do Dry Riesling. I was going to leave out the Chateau St. Michele Dry Riesling until I read a piece by someone who had gathered 60 Columbia Valley Rieslings and gotten a crew of experienced tasters together, blind tasted them, tabulated the results and guess which one came in first place. We also had Germany, Austria, New Zealand, California, Finger Lakes, Alsace and Australia. The Australian wines were a bit higher in acid, a bit more austere and I really felt like they wanted cellar time. Dr. Thanisch Feinherb Dry Style Mosel Germany (2017 vintage) would be my pick for the best of tasting, but the Chateau St. Michele (2017 vintage) was untouched when it came to value. Make sure you get the Dry Riesling as the bottle that says Riesling on it is way off-dry as you also pointed out.
No New York Riesling? Hermann Wiemar used to be served on Lufthansa. Anthony Road is also a very good Finger Lakes producer. Alsace dry Riesling can also reach great heights. There are also many excellent Niagara Rieslings from dry to botrytis affected and icewines.
Also Claire Valley from Australia produces some good dry Rieslings. For really good Riesling a cooler climate is essential.
The Forster Riesling is about 15 EUR from the winery, so extremely good value and it is one of the entry level wines from this famous winery! There the fun begins to start…
I use vegetable wash on my glasses (same ones) because it rinses so cleanly. I’m surprised it’s not talked about more…
As a relative wine novice (but very experienced food connoisseur), my dining companion (impeccable palate far superior to those of top food critics, but also not super-versed in the wine world) and I have come to fall in love your top QPR wine of the tasting.
When you initially noted that your wines were in the $15-$25 range, I didn't expect our go-to "house" white wine to be in your blind tasting. Then, when we saw the top of the capsule and your facial expression upon revealing, it became a dead giveaway. Chateau Ste. Michelle Dry Riesling is by far our favorite wine for food pairings, particularly because it matches perfectly our style of cooking (moderately spicy but focusing on the ingredient's inherent flavors).
Keep these big blind tastings coming!!
Riesling is by far the best deals of the wine world ! They are complex , age worthy , and not so expensive ! Great wine to by and forget in the cellar , cause they transform beautifully ! Cheers !!
Great video and I agree Riesling is the greatest wine grape in the world. Ne remind you can get it in so many styles including sparkling, dessert, dry, off dry. Im a bit sad there were no Oregon Rielsings 🙁 In my opinion Oregon has stunning Rieslings and because it such an expressive grape, they are different than Washington
Finger Lakes Riesling is the best in the USA
Great video!
I enjoyed this vid. That said, I’m going to need you (and other wine you tubers) to stop promoting Riesling. Can’t have the amazing value proposition disappear!
I enjoy the blind tasting video's. I hope you can do a Burgundy Premiere Cru video tasting up from the Cote de Beaune to the top of the Cote de Nuits
That was an odd comparison with the soda and then at the end saying but Riesling doesn’t have all that sugar as soda water/club soda has zero sugar or even calories lol
Great tasting as usual! Glad to see the Von Winning up there near the top, Pfaltz being one of my favorite regions. I'm a little surprised the to see the Chateau St Michelle so high. I've had the wine plenty, and always find it a little uninteresting. I'll have to put it in another lineup and give it another go. At that price, I'd love it to be amazing!
I do blind tastings at least every few weeks and often have to set them up alone as well. Here's what I do. I take a lazy Susan type turntable and arrange the bagged wines on it. Spin the table, and mix the wine up. Spin the table and mix the wine multiple times until you don't know what is what. Then label the bags, and taste.
For real? No NY state Riesling? Wiemer? Konstantin Frank? Oh the HORROR!!!
I have always preferred the Rieslings from New York and Oregon to those from Washington. The WA Rieslings have always seemed flat to me. Too warm a growing season? But with the exception of Eroica, Ch St. M, and Poets Leap, I have not tried any of these. It could be we have different palates. I will try to find some of these and see if you can change my mind. Note also that I like both sweet and dry Rieslings for meals, something not shared by all tasters.
Oh my goodness, Matthew! How could you not put Finger Lakes Riesling against German riesling? Love Finger Lakes Rieslings! 😊
An interesting question. My top three sources for Riesling (in no particular order), are Germany, Austria and Alsace. Clara Valley has some excellent Riesling too. The expressions I have tried from WA and CA have not reached the heights of top expressions from my favorite sources, but they may some day. I also need to visit the Finger Lakes in NY to make a fully-informed opinion on this topic. Cheers!
I'll always provide a view, a like and a comment for any Riesling video you post. Keep 'em coming!
You are knocking it out of the park with the white blinds lately! Thank goodness these whites are less expensive since the shopping list I'm compiling is getting long. Thank you and keep up the great work.
Damn, that is a surprise to see that, will have to check out more Washington Rieslings then, awesome video!
Have been loving my journey through NY riesling after loving German and Austrian ones, this video is ggetting me excited to explore Washington's!! So great to see the channel growing