I admit it. I would have loved to hate the Kung Fu Girl Riesling 2007.

A gorgeous wine. And at 8.5% alcohol you can drink the whole bottle of Vollenweider's Wolfer Goldgrube Riesling Spätlese 2003 and still be able to understand Goethe's Faust.

So succulent and brambly... I tremble when I think of how Haag's Brauneberger Juffer Sonnenuhr Spätlese 2006 will taste in 15 years from now.

Just when I thought that all Californian Chardonnay is plump and over-oaked, this happens: a profound wine from Santa Rita Hills.

The Langenloiser Steinmassel Riesling 2004 is crystalline, with marked minerality and very pure citrus fruit.

The Finger Lakes Riesling Summit 2008 demonstrated well the diversity of Riesling coming from this cold climate region.

Oh what a Kabinett! if such beauty exists on the so-called basic quality level, then life can't be all that bad.

The Rieslings of Weingut Günther Steinmetz are as sharp in minerality as you wood expect from a stone cutter.

Chardonnay, Vermentino, Gewurztraminer, Nero di Troia, Tempranillo, Cabernet, Mourverdre. No Riesling.

How licking stones becomes a hedonistic pleasure.

How 4 half-bottles changed my view of an entire region.

Dönnhoff's entry-level Riesling is fresh and pure, like air in a winter landscape.

For Eva Clüsserath, who is the winemaker at her father's domain, it's all about the stones, it seems. Slate, to be precise.

The aromas are simply beautiful. The smell of a meadow in full bloom, so natural and elegant. Tasting notes for a wine that rewards patience.

A fine wine which shows that 2004 has been a very good vintage in Alsace, for Riesling in particular. This inexpensive Riesling has clean fruit and minerality.

One of the advantages of subscribing to retail store newsletters is the ability to react swiftly when gems like a 1996 Oelberg Spätlese become available.

The connection between wine and architecture is not as far-fetched as it may sound at first, as WineArchitektur shows .

Schmitges consistently produces very fine Rieslings, both dry and sweet. Grown on grey slate soil, his Grauschiefer Dry 2006 offers a lot for $17.

Klaus Zimmerling eschews bureaucracy like Franz Kafka. But his wines are not bleak. In fact, they tell a wonderful story of a vineyard that is not even mentioned on the label.

Italy has many famous wines and Riesling is not one of them. However, on the elevated vineyards in Trentino a few hectares of Riesling are grown... and the wine is quite exciting.

On the UC Davis website you can watch the life of a vine - in 52 seconds.

Issue No. 16 of The World of Fine Wine features 14 pages of tasting notes of sweet German Riesling from the lauded 2005 vintage.

There is a natural bond between Sauerkraut and Riesling: both are the product of fermentation. I put them together in a large pot and turned up the heat.

An Oregon Riesling with even less alcohol than a Mosel Kabinett? Draper Valley Vineyard did it.

Notes of citrus fruit and peach, a full body and a creamy mouthfeel. Riesling makes its debut as dessert wine wine dessert.