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John W. Haeger
- Role : Teaching Scholar
- Website : http://www.oenosite.com/
- Experience : Sinologist, historian, columnist
- Specialist in : Pacific Pinot Noir and Riesling
John Winthrop Haeger is a historian, educator, administrator, and wine writer. A Princeton University graduate with a doctorate in Chinese history from the University of California, Berkeley, where he developed a specialty in the history of the Sung Dynasty, he has taught at Pomona College, Linfield College and the University of California, San Diego, and worked for The Asia Foundation, the Research Libraries Group, the American Council of Learned Societies, and Stanford University.
His work on Sung history appeared in several scholarly journals, including the Journal of Asian Studies, and in a conference volume (Crisis and Prosperity in Sung China) published in 1975. His interest in wine began in graduate school, and his articles about wine appeared in national publications (including Connoisseur, Wine & Spirits, Sunset, Los Angeles and Saveur) beginning in 1986.
He is a frequent speaker, moderator, and panelist at wine events. His first book about wine, North American Pinot Noir (University of California Press, 2004) was named Louis Roederer International Wine Book of the Year for 2
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Riesling Rediscovered: Bold, Bright, and Dry (John Winthrop Haeger)
Riesling is the world’s seventh most-planted white wine grape variety and among the fastest growing over the past twenty years. It is a personal favorite of many sommeliers, chefs, and other food and wine professionals for its appealing aromatics, finesse, and minerality; for its uncanny ability to reflect terroir; and for its impressive versatility with cuisines of all types. It is stylistically paradoxical, however. Now usually made dry in most of Europe and Australia, and assumed dry by most German consumers, Riesling is made mostly sweet or lightly sweet in North America and is believed sweet in the American marketplace irrespective of origin. Riesling is thus consequently—but mistakenly—shunned by the mainstream of American wine drinkers, whose tastes and habits have been overwhelmingly dry for two generations.
Riesling Rediscovered looks at the present state of dry Riesling across the Northern Hemisphere: where it is grown and made, what models and objectives vintners have in mind, and what parameters of grape growing and winemaking are essential when the goal is a delicious dry wine. John Winthrop Haeger explores the history of Riesling to illuminate how this variety emerged from a crowded field of