Matteo’s Recent Underground Riesling Trocken Tasting

“I recently took part in a covert Riesling trocken (dry) tasting the auspices of which; time, place, and tasting colleagues will remain enigmatically undisclosed…The tasting was organized in a double blind fashion, so that even the organizer, who was gracious enough to share 16 or so of his wines, did not know the order in which they appeared.  All the wines were bone dry Rieslings, most of which were of German origin (more on that later).  It was not expected by the host but I brought along a wine of my own (a Bottega selection of course) that we threw into the first flight of wines but then later revisited allowing the wine to breathe a bit.