Gehringer Brothers Classic Ehrenfelser 2003
We first encountered the Gehringer Brothers Ehrenfelser on a trip to Penticton, B.C., around 1998. We ate at Granny Bogner's, and had what is still, at least in rememberance, one of our best meals of all time. Granny Bogner's featured, as you might expect, a lot of Canadian wines. We picked this one pretty much at random, and loved it. Ehrenfelser, developed in Germany in the 1920s, is a cross of Riesling and Silvaner. It does well in cool climates, and thus is well-suited to the Okanagan. The wine, on its own, did not perhaps "wow" us in quite the way it did in context during a romantic dinner at Granny Bogner's, but it's still excellent, coming across very much like a dry Riesling, which makes it both a pleasure to drink and very food-friendly. Our rating: 7/10.
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