One of the world’s greatest white wine grapes, the Riesling vine’s hardy wood makes it extremely resistant to frost. The variety excels in cooler climates, where its tendency to ripen slowly makes it an excellent source for sweet wines made from grapes attacked by the noble rot Botrytis cinerea, which withers the grapes’ skin and concentrates their natural sugar levels.
Riesling is best known for producing the wines of Germany’s Mosel-Saar-Ruwer, Pfalz, Rheinhessen and Rheingau wines, but it also achieves brilliance in Alsace and Austria. While the sweet German Beerenauslese and Trockenbeerenauslese wines, along with Alsace’s famed Selection de Grains Nobles, are often celebrated for their high sugar levels and ability to age almost endlessly, they are rare and expensive.
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Riesling is a variety that is in the House of grape and wine Kunej proved to be versatile, from top to predicate dry wines. Year 2000, dry berry selection, Knight became champion of all Riesling. The richness of the sun year 2003, has developed a special wine: Laski Riesling grape selection.
New Zealand started to produce very decent wine list, having at their disposal only 300 hectares of Riesling, at a time when some producers decided to make sweet wines from the grape harvest late fee. However, despite the cool climate of New Zealand, the first harvest (Riesling was introduced in the early 70′s) were more than satisfactory. Today Riesling from Marlborough, where this sort of takes the third place after the Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc is produced in two versions, dry and sweet, and shows a remarkable acidity, extract and subtlety, which can not be found on the other side of the Tasman Sea, Australia.