One of the things that bums me out about the US wine scene (for lack of a better term) is how so many people dislike riesling — or at least think they dislike it. But it’s really a wine that’s not well understood by many people, particularly in the US. I too have been guilty […]
I have one more Silvaner from Castell to share with you, but this one isn’t 100% Silvaner. It’s a blend of 80% Silvaner and 20% Traminer, which is technically a family of grape varieties—the most well known of which is Gewürztraminer—but in Germany they tend to refer to all grapes from this family as just […]
Continuing the theme from yesterday, today’s review is another Silvaner from Castell. I mentioned in the review of Castell Trocken Silvaner that it is from Germany, but I didn’t mention which part of Germany. Both the Trocken and the Kugelspiel come from the Franken wine region in the state of Bavaria. This is one of […]
Silvaner is a grape variety that we haven’t reviewed on Cheap Wine Ratings, until now. It’s a variety that is grown primarily in Germany and the Alsatian region in France, which is one of my favorite regions for dry white wines. This particular Silvaner is from Germany, which surprisingly is also a first on this […]
