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NEW YORK TIMES December 2003
WINETALK by Frank J. Prial on December 31, 2003 for the New York Times The year ending tonight was a good one for wine in America, and not just for the vintage, which, it so happens, wasn't bad. We will have drunk some 264 million cases of wine by midnight, about 14...
NEW YORK TIMES August 2003
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...
FOOD & WINE – Eiswein Fact Sheet
BY RICHARD NALLEY for FOOD&WINE Imagine the perfect, leafy, green, suns truck vineyard, then shift it to winter gray, with grapes hanging on snow-covered vines, and you have a still-life portrait of how ice wines are made. Silky, complex, and gloriously sweet-ice...
AMERICAN SLATE
From Wine & Spirits Magazine 2002 "THE FINGER LAKES," Hermann Wiemer says, "are going like gangbusters." Surprisingly, Wiemer sounds as though he has mixed feelings about this situation - though that could be chalked up to his slightly dour manner, or to the dual...
AMERICAN VINTAGE – The Rise of American Wine
Only a generation ago, the United States was little more than a footnote in the story of wine. Then, seemingly overnight, everything changed. American varieties began outs coring their counterparts in inter national competitions at home and abroad. Today, American...
FOOD & WINE – The Wine World’s Superstar Grapes
by LETTIE TEAGUE, illustrations by MICHAEL WITTE Although near-great varietals may attempt to complete, these six grapes remain the most influential and adored around the globe. An oenophile tells why. There are over 4,000 wine grapes in the world, and almost all of...
Fine Wines, Few Frills: Wiemer Remains a Finger Lakes Leader
By Jerry Shriver USA TODAY FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1998 Hermann J. Wiemer makes some of the most clitically acclaimed wines if the East, yet one could spend sev eral days here in the Finger Lakes region and easily overlook his unpretentious spread on Seneca Lake's...
FOOD & WINE – Pioneering a Great New York State Rielsing
Written by ANDREW ESSEX Researched by DAN PHILIPS Photography by EDWARD GAIDEL And they said it couldn't be done. Twenty-five years ago, Herman J. Wiemer, a soft spoken German emigre, planted vinifera grapes in the unforgiving soil of western New York State. Those...
VINEYARD AND WINERY MANAGEMENT
Vineyard and Winery Management, February 1992. by Richard Figiel Vineyards flourish in deep gravelly soil along the south end of New York's Seneca Lake, then abruptly vanish where bedrock shale wells up. Further north the shale loosens and recedes enough to give...
The Wiemer Touch
By ERIC GOODMAN ERIC GOODMAN is a novelist and journalist who spends summers in the Finger Lakes region. His most recent novel is In Days of Awe (Washington Square Press, 1992). HERMANN WIEMER'S FAMILY on his mother's side has been making wine in Germany's Mosel...