Many thanks for your kind comment, Solomon. In the UK you can see the effects that Liebfraumilch and other cheap German bulk wines have had on perception - changing this has become something like a mission for me, although I am of course aware that we will need a little more impact than one blog can generate to change this. Still it is encouraging to see that over the last few years the wine trade has become more interested and slowly this will trickle down to the consumer. The only thing we have to make sure that over the message of how good German dry wines are we don't forget that the sweet wines aren't bad either - but with wines as good as this Eiswein or good Riesling Auslese I am not too concerned about that.
Good luck finding the Eiswein - I would be surprised if they produced much of it!
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perceptions and ice wine
Many thanks for your kind comment, Solomon. In the UK you can see the effects that Liebfraumilch and other cheap German bulk wines have had on perception - changing this has become something like a mission for me, although I am of course aware that we will need a little more impact than one blog can generate to change this. Still it is encouraging to see that over the last few years the wine trade has become more interested and slowly this will trickle down to the consumer. The only thing we have to make sure that over the message of how good German dry wines are we don't forget that the sweet wines aren't bad either - but with wines as good as this Eiswein or good Riesling Auslese I am not too concerned about that.
Good luck finding the Eiswein - I would be surprised if they produced much of it!