Ganz Richtig!!

(Warning: completely OMNI)

Rudi - great website, but I didn't see your smiling face featured. An oversight you must correct.

And a great selection - but I note you don't deliver outside Switzerland (drat!). All I got from my Great-grandmother were some outstanding recipes for German bread (and some good genes, I think).

The point about the varietals (Sorten) is well taken. Personally, although I enjoy Aussie whites as much as Washington State whites (and I once ran into an absolutely great Czechoslovakian white), the Mosels and the Frankenwiens are my favorites (with Alsacians -- the wines, not the Schaefferhunds -- a close third). There is one Winzergenossenschaft in Iphofen that makes a Scheurebe you wouldn't believe. (I could go on about white wines all day.)

Sorry - we now return you to your regular discussion, still in progress.

[This message has been edited by Counsellor (edited 03-28-99).]