Wine Review 002: Scheurebe

Wine for Normal People

Alcohol, Lifestyle, Arts, Education, Food, Wine, Dining, Grapes

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2013

⏱️ 6 minutes

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For this mini review, we break it down on a hybrid grape that has crazy descriptions. The review is solid but this is a “must listen” because M.C. Ice created a musical masterpiece at the end! Click here to listen. A weird grape, called either Scheurebe or Sämling 88 (”Seedling 88,” the name of the vine), it’s a cross between Riesling and a wild German grape. It was created by Dr. Scheu (rebe means vine in German), hence the name. It’s supposed to have crazy flavors — some that you taste in red wines like black currant. We sussed it out to figure out what was going on. Not sure we got the best version though… The Wine: 2008 K& G Strauss Sämling 88 Where it’s from: Steiermark, Austria Price: $15 Alcohol: 11.5% Color: Green, kind of clear with a little spritz Smell: Not so fresh (it smelled like sea water). A touch of grapefruit, but very light. Taste: Very light, with almost no flavor. Drink or sink?: Sink! Too [...]

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0:00.0	Joy Rhebe. What is that? Is that a wine that you got tonight?
0:20.0	First of all, yes. Second of all, it says
0:24.0	Somling 88 on it, not Shoye Rebbe.
0:28.0	Okay, well that doesn't help me either.
0:30.0	What is that?
0:31.0	Don't you think that Shoy Reavei sounds like a...
0:33.0	First of all, this is from four-voter-hous.
0:35.0	Oh, we're remixing it.
0:37.0	You can totally...
0:38.0	We can totally.
0:39.0	Do you think you could do that?
0:41.0	Yeah.
0:42.0	A lot of people think that you're a mixed master even though
0:44.0	MC is your first two initials sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry okay all
0:48.8	all right we're having Samling 88 which is of course Shuerebe.
0:55.8	Of course.
0:56.7	Of course.
0:57.7	Which is this random wine that I found.
1:00.0	I've read about it before and I found it.
1:02.3	So it's a fairly new grape.
1:03.9	It's a cross between Riesling and some wild and crazy grapes
1:08.0	that nobody really knows about.
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