Monday, August 2, 2010

Domination Mainstream Movie

second Twitter Wine Awards

The time was more than ripe. The very first event was terrific and so for me there was no doubt that the second Twitter Wine Awards, taking place this time in Klüsserath on the Moselle, a compulsory course will be for me. The number of participants, and the Rieslings employed has almost doubled. The event was held under the auspices of the German Wine Institute .
For example, on the weekend about 25 wine enthusiasts, from Bavaria to Hamburg Check the path to contemplative Klüsserath. There we expected a battery of 140 Rieslings, which we have tasted over the course of Saturday afternoon, highly concentrated.

Not everyone knew how to flatter my wine palate, but a considerable number of good Rieslings knew convincing and made the tasting a wonderful experience. As with the first edition but the results were surprisingly uniform and good Wines were quickly located and rightly awarded with MjammMjamm. After several hours the last tasters had fulfilled its task and the evaluation of the wines has produced the following winners.



Dry Riesling


on points and winner of the Twitter Wine Awards

2009 Haardter Mr. Letten "old vines", 10,50 €, Vineyard Weegmüller,
2009 Westhofen Morstein, late harvest dry, 11.00 €, Winery Flick

for the following wines has almost passed into a Twitter Wine Award

2009 "Rotschiefer", 9.80 €, Weingut St. Antony
2009 Riesling dry, 8.50 €, Vineyard Battenfeld-Spanier
2008 Nierstein Orbl, Great Growth, 15,00 €, Weingut St. Antony
2008 Haardter Mr. Letts' age branches ", 10,50 €, Vineyard Weegmüller
2009 Hackenheim Kirchberg, 7,00 €, Weingut Kaul
2009" Limestone ", 7,50 €, Vineyard Braunewell

Riesling with residual sweetness - Twitter Wine Award winners


2008 Altenberg, late harvest, 12,90 €, Vineyard Willems Willems
2008 Bishop Inger Rosary, 11.00 €, Weingut Johner
2009 Wairarapa, 8,00 €, Johner Estate New Zealand

More very good sweet wines

2009 "Young vines, winery Meierer, 6.90 €
2009 Detzemer Maximiner Klosterlay, Vineyard Thul, 6 €
2009 Schloss Hausen Reichardt, Kabinett medium dry, 9.80 €, Weingut Balthasar Ress


It was another great weekend with many old and now new acquaintances. It is fascinating to learn about the people behind the avatars. I am looking forward to the next event in November on the theme Kaiserstuhl German Pinot Noir.


A sincere thanks to Dirk and Gaby Wuertz for the perfect organization and the effort of this unique event off the ground!

links to other blogs:

The organizer Dirk Würtz to the 2nd Twitter Wine Awards
The German Wine Institute on the 2nd DWI Twitter Wine Awards
Pasta's wine pages to TWA 2
Bad Kreuznach Blog
marco Datini weinwelt
Baccantus
wine Kaiser
Il Direttore


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