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For the second consecutive year Hermann J. Wiemer Vineyard was selected as one of the Top 100 Wineries of the Year by Wine & Spirits Magazine. The 2010 award is based on blind tasting panels by wine professionals (see link for this years reviews), recognizing...
Hermann J. Wiemer Vineyard 1 of 5 American Winery Nominees
Wine & Spirits blind panel tasted 183 American Rieslings over the past 12 months and their critics rated Hermann J. Wiemer Rieslings the highest with 4 of the top 5 Rieslings and 3 or the top 5 dessert Rieslings. See link for full reviews: W&S scores and below...
In this months Wine Spectator’s “Sommelier talk”, Tom Gannon rewrites Steak House Rules and recommends Whites, including Hermann J. Wiemer Vineyard Rieslings.
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Rothmans Steak House on 54th Street is one of the best steak houses in New York. It’s both old-school (clubby atmosphere and career waiters who always remember you) and modern (sharp wine list and superfresh food). While steak and red wine go hand in hand, I love the...
The small (but hopefully growing) number of consumers out there familiar with Finger Lakes wines is likely familiar with this winery. Though the wines have been absent from Wine Spectators’s official tastings for a few years now, quality has always been high. I was...
As though clawing their way south toward Pennsylvania, western New York's Finger Lakes reach out across the site of a 500 million-year-old seabed. When glaciers gouged their way along the riverbeds of this region in the last ice age, deep water, shale and fossil lime...
DUNDEE, N.Y. - Hermann Wiemer, a German expatriate, bought an abandoned soybean farm in the hilly Finger Lakes region in 1973 and put his winemaking pedigree to the test. The cool climate and gravelly soil reminded him of the Mosel Valley, where his mother's family...
He makes a particularly German contribution to the Finger Lakes, and a profound one. His wines draw connections to his homestead in Bernkastel, in the southern Mosel. Hermann J. Wiemer is descended from a long line of wine makers in a Riesling-producing region, so it...
By HOWARD G. GOLDBERG An $18 dry Johannisberg riesling from the Finger Lakes region was voted New York's best wine of 2003 yesterday in a major contest limited to the state's wines. The 2002 reserve riesling, a white wine from the Hermann J. Wiemer Vineyard, on Seneca...
There are more than 125 wineries in six appellations in the nation's second-largest wine-producing state. Think you can't find a bottle? Fuhgeddaboutit! Standing at the threshold of the new millennium, wine consumers are experiencing their most adventurous mood in...