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Romer looked into the history of Scotland's favourite tipple and was inspired by a centuries-old story of impoverished Scots buying discarded wine casks from London wine sellers and then filling them with their cheap whisky spirit to mature. In homage...
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When you consider the wines of Alsace, it's probably fine fragrant whites that come to mind. That's understandable. The Alsace winegrower has six white grape varieties -- Riesling, Pinot Gris, Gewurztraminer, Muscat, Pinot Blanc and Sylvaner -- to play...
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Brothers Estate Winery 2010 Minus 9 Ehrenfelser Icewine, Okanagan Valley, $50: Last year, this Oliver, B.C. , winery topped our Platinum Judging with a Riesling ice wine, and this year, it repeats with a unanimous Double Platinum using the rare...
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The wines of this Teutonic region of France remain a bit of a puzzle - not only to us but also to the average drinker. This subject came up repeatedly during our tasting, which yielded a bounty among some 35 wines tasted. The questions remain the same:...
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The blahblahsphere is rife with posts about the best wines of the year, so I thought I’d offer my favorite “Regional Wines of 2011” – these are wines that thrilled me this year, and yes, I may have graded them somewhat on a curve because they are “from...
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(Why not aim for one a month?) A good starting point would be CedarCreek’s high-acid Ehenfelser, made from the fruit of 25-year-old veins. This German grape is a rare cross between Riesling and Silvaner, and now becomes better wine in British Columbia...
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Grape Varieties: While Riesling has dibs on being the most widely grown grape in Germany, it shares the spotlight with several other white wine varietals, namely Muller-Thurgau, Silvaner, followed up by Pinot Gris, Pinot Blanc, Gewurztraminer and Kerner.
About Silvaner
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Sylvaner or Silvaner is a variety of white wine grape grown primarily in Alsace and Germany, where its official name is Grüner Silvaner. It is best known as a component of Liebfraumilch and production boomed in the 1970s to the detriment of quality. On the other hand it was recently (2006) included among the varieties that can be used to produce... Full Article
