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Fifty Years On: A Historic Tasting of Trockenbeerenauslesen, Part 1

A once-in-a-lifetime tasting event featuring extremely rare aged German Rieslings
Posted: Apr 26, 2010 1:54pm ET

On a beautiful sunny weekend in mid-April, I attended a historic tasting of German trockenbeerenauslesen in Southern California. With 39 white wines ranging in vintage from 1959 back to 1921, it was perhaps the most comprehensive tasting ever of rare, old TBAs on either side of the Atlantic. Here are my tasting notes from the first day of the event.

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