Several of the world’s best Riesling makers came to Australia in February 2015 for Riesling Downunder. As a sideline to this celebration, CellarHand hosted a tasting in Melbourne and Sydney featuring one vineyard each from some of these tremendous producers, including Dönnhoff, Frankland Estate, Dr. Loosen, Georg Breuer, Wittmann, A. Christmann, Heymann-Löwenstein, Koehler-Ruprecht, Stadt Krems, Gunderloch and Bründlmayer.
We asked each of them what it was about Riesling that made this grape so goddam wonderful…