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More homework (Day 33 in Vancouver)

Here are my amateurish reviews.

Gehringer Brothers 2006 Private Reserve Pinot Blanc VQA Okanagan Valley

Distinctive pear aroma. Then apple. Off dry. Quite good for the price.

Moselland Piesporter Michelsberg Riesling QmP Kabinett 2006

Green apple. Zesty lime. Crisp acidity. Off dry.

I was cheated by the marketing people. When I read the brochure, it went:

Vintage 2006 ~ Winner! Light Wine Category “Pure Riesling fruit with perfect zap of acid.” ~ Vancouver Magazine, 2008 Wine Awards.

I opened my wine book for more information and it went:

There are some great wines made in the village of Piesport in the Michelsberg Grosslage, but the thin, characterless Piesporter Michelsberg is not one of them. It is a Grosslage wine that does not come from steep, slaty slopes such as Goldtropfchen or Domherr, but from very high-yielding, flat, alluvial land. No great grower would contemplate cultivating such fertile soil, the low-quality wines of which have unfairly debased the Piesporter village name to such a degree that its wine in the industry has become known as Piss-pot.

Darn.

 

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