Wine Wednesday: Trefethen Dry Riesling

By Carrie Becker in Food on Mar 31, 2010 6:20PM

Searching for the perfect bottle to stretch across your Easter Sunday brunch can be challenging when appeasing to a crowd, while also budgeting to feed them. We headed over to Drinks Over Dearborn to enlist their advice to pick a food-friendly white or rosé wine (we already had our red picks set aside).

The usual suspects were in the mix: Sauvignon Blanc, Pinot Grigio, Pinot Noir Rosé...then our eyes fixated on the Trefrethen Dry Riesling. We asked owner Kyle McHugh to describe this wine. He replied, “It tastes and feels like Spring.” Sold.

When we opened the bottle later, we found the 70+ degree weather that is hitting today had arrived early. Bright, fresh, lemony and apple flavors hit our tongue and the wet slate, minerality was just what we hoped for. In this bottle was exactly what we like to bring to a party, something approachable but different than the average bottle of white. Actually, we find more and more that our friends just don’t drink white wine anymore. They tell us they drank to much white wine in college and have moved on to red. Something tells us they drank one to many bottles (or jugs) of sugary sweet white and pink wines in college.

So, we want to debunk the myth that not all Rieslings are the same. A nice dry Riesling has the perfect place on your wine rack and, perhaps, at Easter brunch.

The Deets:

Trefethen 2008 Dry Riesling Oak Knoll District of Napa Valley, $19.99 at Drinks Over Dearborn (650 N. Dearborn).