Delatite, Sylvia Riesling, 2008

torsten — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 17:38:55 +0000

"But it is a little sweet", was the warning when I expressed an interest in buying this Riesling - as if that had ever stopped a Wine Rambler! Quite the opposite, I was very exciting to find an off-dry Australian Riesling as I had never before tasted one. It also seemed to me it would be a great change to taste it blind against an off-dry German Riesling.

This made even more sense as the label told me that "This early picked Riesling is loosely based on the German "Kabinett" style." Well, bring it on Australia.

torsten Saturday, 24/09/2011

Let's spit out some more Australians (wine tasting, 19/04/08, Clapham)

torsten — Thu, 01 May 2008 22:47:51 +0000

Let's spit out some more Australians (wine tasting, 19/04/08, Clapham)

I was excited to learn that Wines of the World would host a big wine tasting event on the weekend my friend Oliver visited from Munich. I bought two tickets and off we went.

The tasting was in a small hall in the primary school just round the corner. They had eight tables with wine and sparkling and a mixed table that had ale, cider and cognac. The whole setting almost looked like a school fair and we were expecting children running around and teachers giving marks for the best science project.

The event started at 12pm and when we arrived it was only nine wine merchants starring at us and a handful of locals. Two hours later the place was packed with the trendy Clapham crowd.

torsten Thursday, 01/05/2008