If you seek fresh, distinctive, food-friendly white wines, now is the time to discover what chefs, sommeliers and a few aficionados have enjoyed for years—the pleasure of Riesling. Riesling is on the ...

If you haven’t had a good Riesling in a while, take a good look at the wine lists of some of your favorite restaurants. Riesling is definitely on the rise and more and more sommeliers are including ...

Riesling is a polarizing grape variety, either loved or hated. But Germany’s national grape gets a bad rap. Folks think all riesling is sweet, but many of today’s rieslings are a dry bunch, fermented ...

Part of the fascination of visiting PA Wine Land is enjoying the many different wines made from many different grape varieties. A wine made from two or more different grapes is called a “blend,” while ...

But French grapes are by no means to be ignored. Burgundy’s supposedly “lesser” white wine grape Aligoté, once awfully tart, ...

Last week marked the first anniversary of the official worldwide observance of March 13 as the birthday for riesling, the noble grape of Germany that’s such an important chapter in the biography of ...

Washington has long been a wallflower in the wine world, overshadowed by the stature and popularity of California, which makes about 90 percent of U.S. wines. California’s wine industry came of age in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I tell the stories behind all things wine, drinks, food, and travel. Alles Gute zum Geburtstag, Riesling! Wines of Germany ...

Riesling is a magnificent grape but a something of a challenge for the consumer. If you ask one of the grape’s many devoted admirers, they will tell you that Riesling is the noblest white grape in the ...