C7 - Sunday News, November 30, 1980

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By PAT RICH

I have made the amazing
discovery that there are
some wines which are too

in honor of twelve wines
which earlier this year won a
variety of honors at “one of
the world’s most prestigious

tasting.

It had a far sharper
bouquet and taste than the
other wines and was almost

after all the above it seemed
cheaper and more un-
pleasant. The Johannisberg
Riesling was good but in-

To built up the suspense
and against usual routine,
the tasting started with the
least expensive wine and

r wine competitions” in bitter, but served cold it was ferior to the Grey Riesling. moved to the infamous
good to be drunk in my Ljubjana in Yugoslavia. excellent. All of the wines tasted are Eiswein. The number of
apartment. Feeling obligated to taste “A bit too much ‘zing’ for available either in the people in attendance grew

There are some people all nine award-winning white heavy drinking” I noted at general stores or the
who would claim that my _ wines, my taste buds may

apartment is not fit to feed

the time.

specialty shops and are alli

parti : have dulled a bit as the The Pinot Chardonnay = good buys.

pigs in, but that is not the evening went on, but I must 1978 and the Chenin Blanc

point. ; admit there was enly one of 1978 were both good GERMAN WHITES
The point is that my wine the nine that didn't taste

appreciation has made a
consciousness expanding
leap with the realization that
some wines are so good that
they should only be drunk in
dignified surroundings, with
witty and erudite com-
Panions, out of a real wine
glass.

As you can imagine, this
came as somewhat of a
surprise for somebody who
always believed that any
wine could be quaffed out of
the bottle, while sitting one a
rock in the middle of a river.

This amazing revelation
came this week at a tasting
of German wines at the Four
Seasons Hotel in Vancouver.

Since this column will also
deal with a recent tasting of
award-winning Casabelio
wines you will be able to
gleen from it the names of a
large number of fine wines
you will surely appreciate (if
you trust my taste that is,
which is calling for a very
large degree of trust on your
part. I trained on Jordon
Sauterne you know).

The Casabello tasting was

right.

At the top of the award
winners was Rhinegarten
which won the Grand Gold
Diploma of Honour and the
Grand Gold Medal. A fruity
wine, I found it had a strong
and slightly musty taste.

Of the three Diploma of
Honour and Gold Medal
winners, the Chabiis Blanc
1978 gets my vote.

Since it was in a carafe
bottle (the one with the wide
mouth) nobody at the tasting
seemed inclined to try it, but
I found it had a pleasant very
fruity bouquet and a sweet
taste.

The Semillon 1978 was the
only white I found un-
pleasant with its very strange
bouquet, “like a sofa” I
noted, and its musty taste.

The Grey Riesting had a
strong, slightly harsh taste of
riesling grapes but was still
quite good.

Among the Diploma of
Honour and Silver Medal
winners was the Gewart-
traminer 1978 which I
thought was the finest of the

although I noted the Pinot
had a “soapy bouquet”
(where do I dig up these
comments?).

At the low end of the scale
was the Fleur de Blanc and
the Johannisberg Riesling
both of which received the
Diploma of Honour.

I have always liked the
Fleur de Blanc, but tasting it

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In another price and taste
range altogether was _ the
tasting of Guntrum Wines
put on by Schenley’s.

To match the quality of
wines, everbody was looking
their best and believe me I
felt very out of place as the
only person wearing running
shoes.

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