The best of the Nahe wines have the minerality but with a bold fruit character and volcanic spice like character and good acidity. Diversity is huge, and thanks to the fact that more and more single vineyard wines are emerging, there is a revelation going on, a real deal.

Weingut Dönnhoff
Gutverwaltung Niederhausen Schlossböckelheim
Jakob Schneider

Weingut Reinhold Haart

Weingut Grans-Fassian

Weingut St. Urbans-Hof

Güterverwaltung Stiftsweingüter

Reichsgraf von Kesselstatt Annegret Reh-Gartner

The title suggests it, Goldtröpfchen meaning golden drops, or rather golden droplets as Tropfen is drops while Tröpfchen tends to be smaller drops, droplet(s) and a kinder way to put drops. There are a few explanation for the name, Goldtröpfchen.

This article was long due at least in English. I did post in the past a few writings and messages about my concerns and thoughts to mix wine with sparkling water, in Hungarian called fröccs.

Back in Mendocino at the Hearth Arrow Ranch Julie Golden mentioned something which caught my attention. A winery in Santa Cruz which does crystallization, crystallization of the finished wine and much more.

Golden Winery (Mendocino wines)
Bonny Doon Winery
Robert Mondavi, Opus One

They say you don´t step in the same river twice. Well, I almost did. It was back a while ago when a gentleman came to our shop in London to buy the Golden Coro wines. Back then a colleague of mine was serving him and talking with great joy and passion about the wine.

There are quite a few wine faults and at some point you can add a new one to all the existing ones. At least since 2008 there is a new wine fault making its way into the wines: smoke taint.