Riesling Rediscovered
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-27545-4 (ISBN)
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.
John Winthrop Haeger is a sinologist, historian, and academic administrator who has written about wine since 1985 for Connoisseur, Wine & Spirits, Saveur, and other publications. He is the author of North American Pinot Noir (2004) and Pacific Pinot Noir (2008), both published by UC Press.
Acknowledgments Introduction PART I The Riesling Predicament Riesling Behaviors, Typicity, and Terroirs A History of Riesling, Reviewed and Amended Sweet Wines and Dry Wines, Then and Now How Dry Riesling is Made What Differences Do Clones Make? Riesling Habitats in Western Europe Riesling Habitats in North America PART II Introduction to Sites and Producers Rhine Basin Danube Basin: Lower Austria Adige Basin: Alto Adige Eastern North America Western North America References Index Map Section
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 11.3.2016 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Map insert |
| Verlagsort | Berkerley |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 178 x 254 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Getränke |
| Technik | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-520-27545-4 / 0520275454 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-520-27545-4 / 9780520275454 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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