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A wine for all season
"For years, I have served chilled kabinett as an apéritif to the surprised enjoyment of guests"
If I had to pick one grape variety and its wines to see me through from late spring until the last days of summer, it would have to be riesling. Chardonnay's fat, vanilla, peaches-and-cream- Dolly-Parton-styled whites have their summer moments, as do sauvignon's sleek, scented, gooseberry-and-grass-cutting-charged wines. Yet if you want one wine to sip early in the day, mid-afternoon in the garden, as an apéritif, with spicy oriental dishes and - in its sweeter late-harvest form - as a pudding wine to savour with fresh summer berries, there is only one grape that could possibly fit the bill. A mouthwateringly, verdant, racy riesling, with lots of steely, minerally acidity, balanced by gorgeous floral, lime zest-spiked fruit perfectly echoes the season's produce.
Jane MacQuitty, Times Online, May 13, 2006
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