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Riesling is the world's seventh most-planted white wine grape variety and among the fastest growing over the past twenty years. It is a personal favorite of many sommeliers, chefs, and other food and wine professionals for its appealing aromatics, finesse, and minerality; for its uncanny ability to reflect terroir; and for its impressive versatility with cuisines of all types. It is stylistically paradoxical, however. Now usually made dry in most of Europe and Australia, and assumed dry by most German consumers, Riesling is made mostly sweet or lightly sweet in North America and is believed sweet in the American marketplace irrespective of origin. Riesling is thus consequently - but mistakenly-shunned by the mainstream of American wine drinkers, whose tastes and habits have been overwhelmingly dry for two generations. Riesling Rediscovered looks at the present state of dry Riesling across the Northern Hemisphere: where it is grown and made, what models and objectives vintners have in mind, and what parameters of grape growing and winemaking are essential when the goal is a delicious dry wine. John Winthrop Haeger explores the history of Riesling to illuminate how this variety emerged from a crowded field of grape varieties grown widely across northern Europe. Riesling Rediscovered is a comprehensive, current, and accessible overview of what many consider to be the world's finest and most versatile white wine.
Featuring more than two hundred in-depth winery profiles, this
definitive guide is the best single source of information on
world-renowned pinot noirs from California and Oregon. Drawing on
his encyclopedic knowledge of a grape variety considered by many to
produce the ultimate food wine, John Winthrop Haeger offers this
expanded, updated companion volume to his award-winning "North
American Pinot Noir. "Here, with three times the number of winery
profiles, he focuses exclusively on what he calls the Pacific Pinot
Zone, stretching from the mouth of the Columbia River in Oregon to
Santa Barbara in California and extending up to thirty miles
inland. An introductory essay provides an indispensable view of
pinot noir in the United States--including the dramatic effect that
the movie "Sideways "has had on its sales and production.
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