Hanging outside a downtown wine bar that never seems to be open (an odd but regular occurrence with a number of businesses here) are bocksteubel, a very distinct flask-shaped bottle used primarily for higher quality Franconian wine. Franconia is the region here in the northern portion of the German state of Bavaria, and is the only wine producing area in Bavaria. I'm far from being a wine expert (though attempting to educate oneself can be a helluva lot of fun), but drinking German wein has made me appreciate the local beer much more if that's any indication. German white wines are notoriously sweeter than their European counterparts (to their credit, Franconian whites are less sweet and more dry, a definite plus), and I have yet to find a reliably decent bottle of German red table ("everyday") wine.
Friday, August 27, 2010
Local Vino
Hanging outside a downtown wine bar that never seems to be open (an odd but regular occurrence with a number of businesses here) are bocksteubel, a very distinct flask-shaped bottle used primarily for higher quality Franconian wine. Franconia is the region here in the northern portion of the German state of Bavaria, and is the only wine producing area in Bavaria. I'm far from being a wine expert (though attempting to educate oneself can be a helluva lot of fun), but drinking German wein has made me appreciate the local beer much more if that's any indication. German white wines are notoriously sweeter than their European counterparts (to their credit, Franconian whites are less sweet and more dry, a definite plus), and I have yet to find a reliably decent bottle of German red table ("everyday") wine.
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