$6 Riesling Worthy of Thanksgiving?-Emma Reichart Dry Riesling 2025

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Hey, welcome. Uh Domain Dave again, like always, you know, three times a week, anyway, for the last few years. And we've been doing cheap wine finder since 2008, so here we go again. Uh, this is a uh value-priced wine from Trader Joe's. It's a wine that's selling for $5.99. It's from Germany. It's the Emma Reichert Dry Riesling 2025. It's from the Nahi District of Germany. Uh, there's 13 districts in Germany, and this is one of the interesting ones. It has a lot of steep slopes and flatlands and volcanic soil, and it has some good stuff. It's it's a good growing region, and it's $5.99, and they and that's with it shipped all the way from Germany. Uh, Trader Joe's Ferris Flyer mentions that it comes from multiple um multiple vineyards in uh in the region, uh, which is probably how they got the price down. It's not a state wine. You you buy what's you know, you you buy a bunch of different bunch of different growers, and the price never gets too crazy. And there you go. Uh there are Germany has all sorts of classifications for everything. There's there's um all sorts of sweetness uh classifications. This one is tracking, which is dry, but there's like six sweet wines. The Germans like their sweet wines, and uh it's a uh well, I can't pronounce it, it's quality wine. There's um there's about four or five different classifications. One's table wine, and one of the better wines is uh is quality wine, it's uh quality winen or something that's perfect pronunciation. I didn't want to brag, but um it is a is a it is designated good quality wine, it is from a good region. You know, the best German Riesling is from the Moselle. I've heard tell from wine people that Roselle is the finest wine region in the world, better than Burgundy, better than Napa, better than Piedmont, you know, all that kind of stuff. But German Riesling is good, and this is $5.99. Now, one thing is that Trader Joe's, which sounds like the all-American store, is actually in Europe it's Aldi Nord or Aldi North, and Aldi Aldi is or Aldi Sud or Aldi South. So they are a German company, and there ain't no way they're gonna give you a lousy German wine. They're not gonna do it, they're gonna give you value. Is it gonna be the greatest German wine in the history of the world? Probably not, but a $599 might be, this is my joke, I always say, it might be the greatest $599 wine there ever is. I'm gonna take a sip. It's got some rounded smooth flavors, and it's got some tart, it's got some um um there's some lemons, some green apples, some uh grapefruit, and then there's peaches and pears and neptarine. Uh some spice. Spice is almost candy spice. This is not a sweet wine, it's a dry wine, but that the spice gives you, you know, uh kind of like those sugar, those sugared, you know, those little small gel candies with the sugar on it. Gives you that gives me that feeling. I don't know about you, but I like it. I'm gonna take another sip here. Yeah, I mean, this this is a wine that would work well on your Thanksgiving table. Uh one of the for Thanksgiving, what one of the one of the wines they um, a couple of wines they always recommend, is one Pinot Noir and Riesley. I mean, there's other wines that will do it, but uh the Pinot Noir is a light uh bodied red wine and it would not overpower turkey, but it has enough acidity to stand up to um you know all the gooey side dishes. And Riesling, which has a lot of harvest flavors, but it also has acidity, it'll cleanse the palette, and it won't overpower things, but it will give you uh complementary flavors, like all the like the like the grapefruit and the apples and the nectarines, they're all things that would go well in the fall. So it's a good wine. I mean it's just a good I mean it's $5.99. And sometimes I have to pinch myself like this should be terrible. This should be this should be a fruit bomb, it should have the acidities off, it should have should have me holding my nose to drink it. No, it's a fine little wine. I mean, it's I guess that's not the greatest reasoning in the world, but it's a good Riesling, you know, and at $5.99. Why am I even talking about the greatest reasons in the world up at $5.99? I'm talking about a wine you can put on your uh Thanksgiving table and be proud to serve. Uh so there you go. $5.99. You can buy a bottle before Thanksgiving, test it out, see if you like it. No problem. But and it's uh yeah, you can go off scale if you want, but this is like you, you know, you this is your uh sister-in-law who doesn't drink, and your aunt that shouldn't drink would would kind of like it. You know, it's easy to drink, it's got flavors that you can uh pick out right away. The acidity doesn't sting your lips, it's just a nice little wine, pretty good. So there you go. I've got a um uh DOCG uh prosecco coming up pretty soon. Another value price wine uh from Valdia Benedity. I can't pronounce that word ever. Every time I look at it, I I can say it until I look at the letter, and there's double B's and all sorts of stuff. But uh, we got a good prosecco coming up in a couple days, and then we're gonna try to see what we can find. There should be some new wines coming out for the holidays, so I'm waiting and seeing. So, adios, keep it cheap, domain day. Keep it uh keep it cheap, and I'll talk to you later. Bye bye.