The Vinothek for Australia was a long time in the planning and making. Sydney was chosen as the first city to have a Vinothek outlet, which, in retrospect, may have been an unwise choice, since many people from Melbourne, who had visited, had begged for just such an establishment in Melbourne.
Vinothek was established to provide Australia with the very finest, outstanding, indeed unusual and exclusive wines of Germany, also with a reasonable contingent of Austrian wines, which, although in the last decades very much overlooked in the world in general, are now becoming the focus of intense, international interest for their quality. These wines blasted away generations old, false conceptions of German wines in the minds of the English speaking world generally.
(the tale continues here)
Following
2 Jun 10
Robert Parker’s “Wine Advocate” has finally found how magnificent are German dry Rieslings, and Reds
After having visited numerous German wine makers last year, and tasted many, many wines, a group of 41 wines, out of which 20 were from the Moselle, received scores of 95 or more.
A dry white also scored 95, giving it an almost instant cult status. And also a red wine, a Spätburgunder (pinot noir), scored 92+.
14 May 10
And somewherere confortable to drink them …
….. at the old Vinothek in Sydney, Australia, in its book wall bar (yes, the wall is composed entirely of real books).
Grrrr…. always with the good news…
Right after being able to tell everyone the good news about the new Riesling shipment. our shopping cart and ordering system goes down, and won’t be fixed until after the weekend.
But have a look at everything anyway.
Have a great weekend everyone!
It has finally arrived
The latest shipment of fantastic Rieslings from the Mosel has arrived at last ….. 11 quite different Rieslings all from the one fantastic, almost unique wine maker … and they will be going out at better than bottle shop prices. Ahh… there will be some fine drinking for a while now!
28 Apr 10
Ein Glas Wein auf die Suppe ist dem Arzt einen Taler entzogen
A glass of wine with the soup is a dollar taken from the doctor
(German Proverb)
Un pane, un fiasco e un anno - veloci se ne vanno.
A loaf of bread, a bottle of wine, and a year - they go quickly.
(Italian Proverb)
Nimm Du täglich Deinen Tropfen,
wird dein Herz stets freudig klopfen,
wirst im Alter - wie der Wein,
stets begehrt und heiter sein.
Take daily your drops,
always will your heart beat gladly,
become with age - like the wine
ever treasured and mellow.
(Old German Toast)
A bottle of good wine begs to be shared
(Old Chinese proverb)
In Australia, Vinothek is the source of outstanding and exceptional, prize winning German wines from mostly small, exclusive producers of both white and red wines.
The Mosel - A Unique Wine Producing Area
