newbie needs help with wine selection please

Wine 'tasting' is a waste of time. Good wines that are 'food wines' are meant to be consumed as part of a meal, without which they can seem overpowering. Merely 'tasting' a wine is an insult to the winemaker.

Piesporter Goldtröpfchen from any good German maker should delight you.

There are some really fine Gewurztraminer wines from Austria. Often tough to locate for under $30 a bottle, but totally possible. I have personally been enjoying the Weingut Tscheppe (VIN'O Tscheppe, as they now call themselves) 2000 Reserve, and their 2001 and 2002 vintages from the Possnitzberg vineyard are super. The 2001 Summus from Wohlmuth is very good, and the 2000 Gamitzberg from Gross is excellent.

Try an online search tool and see what you can find.

e.winemonger ______________

Sorry that I didn't see your post earlier. My first recommendation is anything from Zind-Humbrecht, Alsace, FR. They offer several GW's and start at about your price point, going up as the location becomes better defined, i.e. village, vineyard, etc. They are worth looking in to, and are fairly readily available in the US. I'd also not limit myself to their GW's, as they do some excellent Rieslings and Pinot Blancs.

Hunt

You have fallen for a troll.

Read the newsgroup before jump>OK, I don't get this post. Are you suggesting that by me "tasting" a

Mike Tommasi, Six Fours, France email link

skenzer wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

LOL You got me to think about how many of us have gone to cellars and tasted wine with the winemakers-so this should insult them? when they are pouring? and it is their wine?

taste taste taste and then have the winners to dinner.

Now the fun begins! Let us know what you find that you like.

Hunt

Winemakers amke wine to be drunk with meals, not tasted. Wine that is not intended to accompany food does not interest me.