By Julia Burke, Beer Editor Like every TasteCamp attendee, I’m a wine lover, but I’m also a beginning home winemaker with a personal interest in discovering what it takes to make world-class wine in my home region of Niagara. This means that in addition to tasting as much wine as I can, I take every opportunity to pick the brains of the winemakers — and occasionally harass them with samples of my own wine after battering them with questions. I figure, when else will I get the chance to speak one-on-one with brilliant and talented people who have built their…
Posts Written OnJune 01, 2011
By Julia Burke, Beer Editor Like every TasteCamp attendee, I
How Long to Hold a Bottle of Good Riesling? At Heron Hill and Elsewhere, the Search for Answers Goes On
By Evan Dawson, Managing Editor When is the ideal time to open a well-made Finger Lakes riesling? It seems like a silly question, doesn't it? The answer is often, and appropriately, "Whenever you feel like it." And start with this: There's no Finger Lakes riesling that will be so closed as to be unready if you open it young. Even the 2010 rieslings coming off the bottling lines this spring will be fine in short order. But the best wine tells an extended story, one that unfolds in multiple acts. A great riesling in its youth is all nervy, adolescent…