Thank you all for your comments. It is correct that there is the "original" Liebfraumilch vineyard in Worms, that goes back to at least the 18th century and had an excellent reputation. Sadly, the wine we had is not from there - these days Liebfraumilch is made in several wine growing region and can be made from a range of grape varieties. If the wine is labelled as "Liebfraumilch", classified as QbA and just has a region, such as "Rheinhessen", as origin you are looking at the mass produced variety. This is what made it so interesting that the wine was still in a serviceable condition.
Muzuhashi: perhaps parents should do this as a service for their children - put a few cases of Liebfraumilch away when the child is born and store them with your advice on how to drink it for when the child reaches drinking age? That would make for a much more civilised binge experience!
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Liebfraumilch
Thank you all for your comments. It is correct that there is the "original" Liebfraumilch vineyard in Worms, that goes back to at least the 18th century and had an excellent reputation. Sadly, the wine we had is not from there - these days Liebfraumilch is made in several wine growing region and can be made from a range of grape varieties. If the wine is labelled as "Liebfraumilch", classified as QbA and just has a region, such as "Rheinhessen", as origin you are looking at the mass produced variety. This is what made it so interesting that the wine was still in a serviceable condition.
Muzuhashi: perhaps parents should do this as a service for their children - put a few cases of Liebfraumilch away when the child is born and store them with your advice on how to drink it for when the child reaches drinking age? That would make for a much more civilised binge experience!