TN: 2005 Nigl Kremser Freiheit

Quick question. When you make the butternut squash risotto are you using Butternut Squash soup or puree. I've tried it both ways and the soup comes out slightly better for me.

This was first time she made (from Williams Sonoma catalog recipe!). Called for puree, she chose recipe because she had a squash and made own. But I had pointed out during dinner she could have used the liter carton of squash soup that has sat in pantry for a year (teenagers chose stuff, then ...). I like squash, but I have to say this risotto was too sweet for me.

Lawrence Leichtman wrote:

Marting Nigl is one of the very few guys where you can take just about every single bottling and get top quality for the price.

Thus said, every wine is available also under screwcaps, and Martin really knows when a wine is ready to be bottled, a decision that is much more crucial with screwcaps than with corks.

I don't know whether your retailer offers Nigl's wines with screwcaps, but if not - and if you care for them, of course! -, you should ask for them, to show that there is demand. Maybe the message gets up the chain and back to Martin ...

M.

thanks Michael. The KF was under screwcap (as was 2004 if I recall correctly). I understood that some bottles of the 2004 Privat were under screwcap, but think mine are natural cork. I'd prefer to find the

Nigl doesn't use Stelvin () caps, but German made MALA capsules ().

;-)

M.

Funny I did the same recipe from the William Sonoma Catalogue but used the soup instead because the puree looked like it had too much sugar in it. The soup was not at all sweet.

Actually, good to know. I try to avoid saying Clorox or Xerox, I should be more precise (more general, yet more accurate) re closures. I should go out to recycling and look - are these closures as long as the Stelvins?

All so-called 30 x 60 mm "long caps" - manufactured by Pechiney, Mala, Auscap or others - are exactly the same size, given by the form of the neck of the bottle. In principle they are all of equal high quality, although not always exactly the same. Patrick Johner from Kaiserstuhl (Baden, Germany) reported that capsules from different producers needed different pressures during the roll-on process.

The reason Martin Nigl used Mala instead of Stelvin, however, has nothing to do with quality criteria: Mala was much more flexible in delivering non-standard capsules, i.e. printed with the Nigl logo.

M.