Today we are celebrating both Women’s History Month and Riesling Day with a Riesling from Brooks Winery in Oregon which just named Claire Jarreau Head Winemaker after serving as Associate Winemaker and as member of the Brooks Wine team for ten years. Why is March 13 Riesling Day? Because March 13, 1345, is the first recorded date for the planting Riesling vines. The village of Hochheim, Germany is where it began, and not surprisingly, Germany has the most plantings today with 24,500 ha (about 61k acres, according to several sources). In the Alsace region of France, Riesling is on record as being planted in 1477; today 3,280 ha (8,100 acres) are planted with these vines. In the US, Washington State pioneers planted Riesling in the 1880s, and now they grow riesling on 4500 acres (happy Washington Wine Month by the way!). California’s Riesling acres has dropped to just under 3k acres (check out Smith-Madrone’s passion for Riesling).
Claire Jarreau (photo courtesy of Brooks)
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