It depends. The grape it's made from is important. The American ones are largely trash.
I've found that's true of many American rieslings, although I confess to be fond of the Fetzer gewürztraminer. It's closest to the white German wines I grew up with when I was younger.
Santa Cruz and Santa Barbara counties are coming out with some interesting rieslings, though.
Do we all agree that the three bands below are the greatest bands of all time?
How would you rate them, 1, 2, 3?
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If stranded on a desert island with only 3 records to play, Dark Side of the Moon is there, anything by The Doors and Tom Waits, probably Small Change or Raindogs.
There's a question that Stephen Colbert asks his guests: "If you had to listen to one song and only one song for the rest of your life, what would it be?" I think my answer would be George Harrison's "Here Comes the Sun" or the Grateful Dead's "Touch of Grey." Every time I listen to them, I hear depths and complexities that I never noticed before.
Mistaken for merlot for centuries after it was thought to be extinct until geneticists rediscovered it. There was a brand marketed in the US called "Oops."
Speaking of mistakes, there's an interesting story about zinfandel. It was generally considered a variant of primitivo, although nobody could figure out how it got to California from Italy. But a vintner named Miljenko "Mike" Grgich recognized it as identical to crljenak, a type of grape he knew from his boyhood in Croatia. Subsquent DNA tests confirmed that zin and crljenak were identical, with zin being a close cousin. And research traced its possible journey to California via cuttings transported there from the Austrio-Hungarian Imperial Nursery (Croatia was part of that empire in the 1800s). So we know now its parentage. Zin should really be the state grape of California since, like so many Californians, it arose from obscurity in its homeland to prominence when brought to the state.
I've found the old-vine zin to be a bit overpowering, although the best ones are quite memorable.
I shoulda put the Dead in my list.
True dat. I find it interesting that the Dead performed over 2300 paid concerts during its thirty-year career, not including free concerts and benefits. According to some biographers, they sold more tickets than the Beatles, the Beach Boys, the Stones, the Who, and Led Zeppelin
combined.
And I'd have to add Barenaked Ladies to the list of great bands.
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