Riesling – The ultimate food pairing & warm weather wine

It’s white wine and rosé season! Here are the wines I’ve been drinking this Spring, going into summer. We’re going to be learning about wines from Germany and Alsace and the major grape variety Riesling and other grapes grown in the area.

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hi it’s Vivian the sonnic store welcome back to my channel it’s been a while hi we haven’t been doing Vivian wine lessons and I was kind of inspired by people in the comments being like hello knock knock where are you can we get back to normal programming I will do my best and so today we’re going to be talking about German wines alaan wines I feel like I haven’t really like we’ve kind of tiptoed around it but we haven’t really talked about it there’s so much to go into and like doesn’t this look so so tasty if you like this Channel please hit that Thumbs Up Button And subscribe to my channel and let us get started oh my gosh so I pivoted this wine cuz I was like well am I going to drink all of this I have another bottle open that I do want to bring out today I am drinking a Julian Hart reasing cabinet from the mosul we’ll be getting into all of this stuff but I yeah it’s been hot or it’s been getting hot today it’s almost like 80° it it just flipped like a switch it was like cold one day and now it’s hot and I’ve just been really feeling the white wines lately I’ve been tiptoeing with some roses but I’ve noticed my hand tends to reach for German and alaan wines and it it it makes it easy because they have these long flute like wine bottles so it’s kind of easy to pick out if you’re looking in a wine store being like what wines is she talking about they’re typically in these long fluty bottles in Germany yes you will see some P noirs they’re growing much more of that but reasing is definitely the the king there so reings are so so food friendly they’re just like tasty to drink by themselves like a little honey oh it’s so juicy I have yet to meet a wine nerd who’s like I hate reings especially like German reings it just like doesn’t exist I I feel like there’s an appreciation for German reings because there is such like such Nuance what makes reings unique in Germany is that there’s a lot of acidity in these grapes and so with that acidity it becomes very very light it’s about the pureness of the grape and the land most wine makers don’t really like to Tamper and change the flavor they like to just let the grape and the land speak for themselves a lot of times you will see 100% of a single varietal um I do have some Blends here and there but for the most part like especially really nice German wines or Alan wines it’s typically typically just one grape it seems really scary honestly sometimes saying the words are kind of fun I think the German section was actually the hardest section to learn because you really had to like learn the German phrases and like what things meant and like reading the label so let’s kind of get into a little bit of reading labels for German wines there are two different systems you have your traditional system and your modern system modern system very simple you will see there’s an eagle an Eagle logo with some grapes that’s to denote VDP or part of the modern system with the modern system as you can see they make it very very simple you know it’s like okay we have the grape which is reasing we have the Vintage we have the producer and uh okay so Tren means dry basically basically very very simple meanwhile you have the traditional system and yeah it can be kind of intimidating you’re like what are all these words on here so in the traditional system you know we got to take it back back before all this talk about climate change in Germany it was really hard to get your grapes ripen because they’re pretty far north if you look at the wine regions in Germany they tend to be in the southern part because North is like pretty really cold and they tend to be along the rivers on south facing slopes because that magnifies how much sunlight they get and they also tend to be grown in soils that retain heat like slate like in the mosle one of the levels in the traditional system is about ripeness and ripeness does not necessarily mean sweetness all right so we start off with cabinet the soonest that you pick the grapes cabinet Spate laser o laser be and O laser trucken bear and O laser and Ice Vine and that is the ranking by ripeness so now you know most grapes can reach Al laser SP spotl a it’s not too difficult for the grapes to reach that ripeness but back in the day it was not always given that um grapes would get that ripe so that is a mark of quality next you actually have like the sweetness scale so like we saw trucken means dry help trucken means half dry so let’s look at this bottle so you have the producer over here so right Alfred uh merkelbach um a pretty good producer in the mosul we have we see the grae variety reasing cabinet a very light wine my camera overheated it does that all right so where were we erer that is the village this is the vineyard so if you see ER in my mind I’m like it means of so Vineyard of Village mosul reasing so so tasty this one oh my goodness it’s going down so easy I’m like I’m like oh use the Corvin um just in case you don’t drink it ah jokes on me but you know this is like Insurance just in case just in case I don’t finish it at least it’ll stay fresh longer so VDP versus traditional system here’s another one this is from the Ryan gal which is another German region which is a little bit more south and I would say the reings in the ryal tend to be a little bit more rounder just because it’s in a more Southern Climate this one actually though was like so it was like super tring super dry right so cabinet really really lightweight ryal is also a really great place to get reings faults is like they’re doing a lot of interesting things there if you’re looking for some nice really refreshing ing wines I would head to Germany um some the Roses really really tasty I had a really good Rosé from the mosul it was a spat bagunda from AJ Adam very light strawberries it was just so clean so clean I would buy that again except it was the last one at the store that I went to and I saw it I knew I needed to take it like literally my hand was like up up come to me this one one is a rosé again you can see see this is modern uh the modern system VDP I would say this is like $20 and as you can kind of tell this is a a land wine so very kind of like a table wine kind of basic but sometimes it’s kind of nice to go basic because some of the higher-end reasonings are kind of expensive I would say for a good reasoning you’re looking you’re looking at like4 plus dollars for like a good traditional reasing they’re expensive oo wow that was so tasty hydrate and wine change so I have an Allan wine this is amily and Charles Spar so if you look at a map alluce is East near the mountains close to Germany so as you can see lots of German influence the flute bottle is back in play and reasing along with GT streamer Peno gree and Muscat so those are the actually by law the four main grapes that can be Grand Cru status like high-end status they do produce some PS some p blancs and like uh like Siler similar to Germany very clean style new neutral container so either in cement tanks or stainless steel tanks they’re very very purist although this one I kind of was looking is a blend of grapes so we got in here reasing I believe Pino G and musat Pino gree is a little bit heavier in body it has like that almond like slight like bitterness to it so this is giving like a slight bittery note so alaan wines I would if you had to compare them to German ones I think they have a little bit more body to them more robust flavor more minerality compared to their German counterparts and I would say they tend to be a little bit less expensive if you’re not looking at the top tier allation wine so this one yeah definitely definitely a lot more body I believe this is like 12.5% alcohol but it doesn’t feel heavy still it you just can tell that there’s more weight to it there’s like a peachy floral and I think the floral comes from the muskat muscat’s known for its floral qualities so I would kind of look into those grapes like yeah gor reings P gree um PS from the area just explore it more one of the things that people always like think about re too is uh the petrol characteristic it’s not present in all raisings like in the one that I just drank I don’t I didn’t really perceive that much petrol but especially as they get older right so this is like more than 20 years old there is a compound is it like TDN like trimethyl di High blah blah blah blah I don’t know how to say that try I don’t know TDN I just say TDN that tends to come up in reasing especially if they get like some sunlight exposure while they’re grown um so sometimes Growers will shade The Grapes a little bit more I think it’s just like fascinating that like that could be a like a reer tire or whatever that’s like that actually is like the sensation sometimes that you get when you’re drinking reasing and you’re like how is that nice but it’s just kind of adds like a Nuance to it so these are the wines that I’ve been drinking lately just as like the season has been turning I’ve I have been using my Corin um my Pivot and my Timeless three I was like oh I’m definitely not using my Timeless three on that uh reeing CU is just going down so easy but who knows I might drink that in like 2 days anyway so but it’s just nice to have and again if you like this video hit that thumbs up and follow for more information or just me drinking wine cheers and I will catch you guys later