Comments on: Riesling’s Rising Tide

By: morgan h

morgan h — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:15:22 +0000

thx for the article–i had always wondered just what happenend to the washington langguth wines. i must have discovered the first year’s product, and supsequently bought a case, and then kept my eye out for their wines whenever i was in a different grocery with a wine section. i lover their wine–it was the only amercan grown reisling that ever caputured that wonderful mosel quality which i so love!! i eneded up finding their select harvest, the select cluster, and their ice wine, all of which i thought were delightful!! and no one(washington state) was even considering production of an ice wine that i ever saw while i lived there. not american grown anyways. i was very sorry that they disappeared from my reach, and i will always hold the wines i found with high regard. they tasted so different from all the other ameerican grown reislings. they just had that mosel quality or flavor or however you want to describe the taste of those wines from the mosel. j. prum and any other german label with bernkasteler were the flavors i always have preferred in a reisling and the langguth wines expressed this so well. thanks for the history, and i hope somone will re-establish that line of reislings. enjoy!!

By: Sean P. Sullivan

Sean P. Sullivan — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:59:37 +0000

Mike, interesting to think about what might have happened to Washington Riesling had Langguth stayed in the equation. Makes me wonder what CSMs Riesling production was at that time as well – how much they were competing with each other. Thanks for the post!

By: Christian G.E. Schiller

Christian G.E. Schiller — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:46:23 +0000

All these are what I would call German-American wines. More on these wines here http://www.schiller-wine.blogspot.com/2010/01/german-american-wines-i-pacific-rim-dry.html and here http://www.schiller-wine.blogspot.com/2010/02/german-american-wines-1-nv-two-worlds.html