GINI Wine Tasting

VW: I was looking for a cheaper white wine for poaching pears and picked this one for $8.45. Liebfraumilch is a type of semi-sweet wine made in Germany. Most of the time Liebfraumilch is associated with low quality wine. Green apple and tangerine nose. Quite balanced sweet and sour note, but other than that, not much [...]

VW: Once this wine hit my palate, I knew that I made the wrong decision……. to buy one of this only. The name is long but this wine is easy to understand and enjoy. Was on sales at Vintages for $13 Canadian only ! but too bad they are all gone by now.
Classic petrol, some rubber, [...]

AC: Only our 2nd time to taste white wine in our GINI gatherings. This batch of Riesling are all made by Balthasar Ress. They are 82 Rudesheim Berg Rottland Spatlese, 82 Rudesheimer Berg Schlossberg Kabinett, 90 Johannisberger Klaus Spatlese, and 98 Hattenheimer Wisselbrunnen Spatlese. Been quite a while since I tasted these so don’t remember [...]

GINI 11 (May 5, 2007) wine# 4 – AC: You can tell this is a late harvest with its nose. This wine lacks character and is a straight forward sweet with little finish. 88
VW: Typical petrol, some grapefruit. This tasted rather flat with mainly mango. Lacking acidity which made it taste a little syrupy. Nonetheless, [...]