California Riesling – improved and ignored

Convinced of Riesling’s inherent greatness, these California winemakers strive onwards despite the Sisyphean task of selling the wines. Above, a bunch of Riesling in the hands of grower Mike Lucia of Cole Ranch vineyard

We now have incontrovertible evidence that a rising tide does not lift all boats. In the last decade, sales of white wine have risen sharply, even overtaking red-wine consumption in the United States, as the warming world embraces glasses of everything crisp and cool.