What did you drink this weekend?

Oh, I am not going to pretend that this was the only thing that I drank this weekend… after all, my folks were over for about nine hours… but this was the first selection.

The wine, brought by my father, is a blend of 60% Müller-Thurgau and 40% Silvaner and grown in the Nahe wine region.

As a spatlese is “late harvest” many Americans presume that they are dessert wines. But in Germany “late harvest” is a designation of residual sugar in the wine and is actually among the least “sugary” of the German wines. Spatlese wines can actually be sweet or trocken (dry).

The Weinhaus Lang was actually semi-dry and full of fruit. Kevin thought it tasted of warm honey… where I tasted golden delicious apples as well as honey. We paired it a selection of charcuterie which was a perfect match.

Our appetite’s were whetted and ready for more!

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