Von Winning Forster Ungeheuer Riesling 2016 750ml
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Loved by wine critics but a stranger to broad commercial appeal, Riesling is a light-skinned, aromatic grape of German origin which is also responsible for some of Germany's greatest, and longest-lived, white wines. Riesling is made in a range of styles but generally produces crystalline, aromatic white wines with notes of citrus, wax and lanolin, with a light to medium body and plenty of fresh acidity.
Although widely associated with the wines of the Mosel and Alsace, Riesling is planted all over the world, and has established itself in the likes of Washington and Australia's Clare Valley.
It seems much of Riesling's reputation in the latter half of the 20th Century was tarnished by the sea of chaptalized, low-quality wine exported from Germany in the 1970s and 80s. In truth, very little of that infamous wine was Riesling at all, but instead higher-yielding grapes such as Müller-Thurgau and Silvaner, but the reputation has nonetheless stuck.
Riesling is regarded by many critics as being one of the world's finest white grapes (and wines). "Riesling, is the greatest white wine grape in the world," said UK wine critic Jancis Robinson MW in a 2020 piece for the Financial Times.
