Warm weather riesling

Just a quick post on a very nice wine my neighbor shared with me this weekend. And what a pairing the wine and weekend made.

The 2007 Moselland Lighthouse Series Riesling ($10) is as attractive as it is tasty. The frosted bottle holds a medium bodied, crisp wine that's full of fruit flavors. Served well-chilled (optimum temperature is slightly warmer than refrigerator temperature), it's a great sipping wine when enjoying unseasonably warm winter weather.

The wine is tagged as a Qualitatswein wine. Qualitatswein is a term used for late-harvest wines from one of 13 regions of Germany. Late-harvest grapes are overly ripe, therefore producing intensely sweet wines that often define the Riesling variety.