International Riesling Foundation announces “Riesling Taste Profile”
The International Riesling Foundation (IRF) has completed a “Riesling Taste Profile” designed to make it easier for consumers to predict the taste they can expect from a particular bottle of Riesling.
The system involves voluntary technical guidelines for wine makers and winery owners in describing their wines for consumers; and four graphic options that may be used on a back label, point-of-sale materials, and elsewhere. Read more about the Riesling Taste Profile…
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MEDIA CONTACTS:
Jim Trezise, jimtrezise@nywgf.org (for general information about the IRF)
Dan Berger, danberger@rocketmail.com (for information about the Riesling Taste Scale)
September 4th, 2008 at 8:26 am
[...] scale freshly released this morning by the International Riesling Foundation (IRF) on our website: http://rieslingrules.com/the_book/irf/international-riesling-foundation-announces-riesling-taste-pro…. Pacific Rim has been a very active founding member of the IRF and we have done our part to [...]
September 5th, 2008 at 10:05 am
Hi Jim and Dan, thanks for putting such a great resource for riesling on the internet! Very interesting but I did find one little error on this page - http://rieslingrules.com/the_book/category/riesling-around-the-world/
Rieslings from the Eden Valley are not sparkling wine but a table wine that is generally very austere and usually with notes of lemon, lime and minerals.
I like to think the Eden Valley rieslings are equally as good as the Clare Valley rieslings - both splendid examples of this noble variety but very different due to the different soils and climates. Due to the high acid in the Eden Valley rieslings they generally age better than a lot of other regions’ rieslings.
September 10th, 2008 at 11:50 pm
Australian Rieslings have been impressed by different styles emerging from other, distinctly cooler regions. Great Southern, the southernmost tip of Western Australia incorporating such areas as Frankland River and Mount Barker, has its own distinctive and delicious, almost herbal, style of dry Riesling. Great Southern Rieslings are fast becoming world renowned.