Moselland Landmark Window Bottles.

[Charles]

Anyone else run into any of these?

Did some work for a local doctor, he was throwing away all of his booze...mainly because his son-in- law opened his collector bottle of Pinch. He doesn't really drink...but popping the cherry on his Pinch pissed him off like if my stepson were to run a couple hundred of rounds through my unturned Diamondback.

Anyway, he have me a crate of white German wine, most of it has gone bad. Wish I would have told him I liked whiskey...he poured it out...other than the Pinch.

Well, about the only bottle of wine he gave me that was fit to drink was a jug of Moselland Landmark Riesling, 2006 vintage, a window bottle.

As I haven't pulled the cork, I will give you my expectations. A decent German white, not real good , but not too bad. Most likely will kick Blue Nun's ass, but that don't take much.

But my interest falls to the window bottle. They have apparently hired an artist to create a painting on the back of the bottle. The majority of the bottle is frosted, with a clear window on the front, which serves as a magnifier to the picture on the rear of the bottle.

This is a new one on me. But being a provincial by choice Missouri hillbilly, it doesn't take much to enlighten me.

Question is..anyone familiar with Moelland picture window bottles in particular? Or picture window bottles in general?

I would think for a low rent collector, they would be desirable.

But I don't know anything. Fill me in.

Chas

 

[finnbow]

This is a low level non-vintage blended wine from the Mosel-Saar-Ruwer (MSR). The bottle may be the most attractive aspect of this wine. It is the MSR equivalent to Liebfraumilch which is a blended wine from Rheinland/Pfalz and Rheinhessen. Both are products intended specifically for export to the U.S. and would not grace a table in Germany (probably not even available). The attractive bottle is designed to sell a wine over here that couldn't be sold over there. It's the equivalent of the low grade bulk wines from the Central Valley of California or Australia in a pretty wrapper.

 

[fmueller]

A rule of thumb for wine - not just German wine - is: 'The fancier the bottle, the shabbier the wine' :yes:

Unless you go to a specialty shop and pay big $$$, German white wine sold outside of Germany tends to be very, very sweet with not much of a taste besides that. That's what I'd expect of your bottle as well.

Whenever I visit Germany, I drink as much German Riesling as I can get my hands on. Buy any Riesling in Germany that says 'dry' (trocken) on the bottle, and you can't go wrong - at least not if you like dry white wine like me. I can buy a liter bottle (about one quart) of wine in Germany that I perfectly enjoy sipping for $5 or thereabouts. Unfortunately this wine is simply not available outside of Germany. I never buy German wine in the US anymore. If you want to buy a nice dry white here, go for a Sauvignon Blanc from New Zealand. There are better and worse deals, but I never had one I didn't like at all. Nobilio is widely available in Ohio for about $12 per bottle ($10 if you can find it on special), and it's excellent value for money. Of course I am biased since my wife is a New Zealander, but that's a different story

Frank