A decade from now, when we’ll all be rather blasé about how Riesling took American wine consumers by storm late in the first decade of the 21st century, and how it then had established itself as the stellar choice for elegant dinner pairings with seafood, many of us will be asking ourselves:

However did we all get so seduced by “the Chardonnay thing” for all those years?

It has long been alleged that Riesling is a far greater grape variety than Chardonnay, and by 2017, I suspect, the quality of Riesling as a dinner-table companion as well as an after-dinner winner will be the buzzword of wine sophisticates. And we will all be chatting about Riesling’s stunning regionality as an added bonus to its quality.