My wife and I invited a few board members over last weekend for a small Oktoberfest. For appetizers we served some assorted German cheese and sausage, warm soft pretzels with spicy mustard, shrimp and grilled portobella mushrooms stuffed with gorgonzola cheese and prosciuto. The first course was liver dumpling soup. For dinner, my wife made roasted pork with bread dumplings, spaetzle and sauerkaut cooked with bratwurst and knockwurst. Anwar brought an apple tart for dessert.

Here are the wines. I'll post some notes when time allows.

SPARKLING
2001 Schloss Schönborn Pinot Noir Brut Sekt (Germany, Rheingau)

KABINETT & DRY WEINS
1999 Grans-Fassian Trittenheimer Altärchen Riesling Kabinett (Germany, MSR)
2003 Albert Mann Pinot Gris Cuvee Albert (Alsace, France)- from haggis
1996 Prager Grüner Veltliner Smaragd Trocken Weissenkirchner Achleiten (Austria, Wachau)

SPATLESE & AUSLESE
2003 Müller-Catoir Haardter Herrenletten Riesling Spätlese (Germany, Pfalz)
2002 Dr. Loosen Erdener Pralat Riesling Auslese (Germany, Rheingau)- from Anwar
1988 Maringer Piesporter Goldtröpfchen Riesling Auslese (Germany, MSR)
2002 Robert Weil Kiedricher Gräfenberg Riesling Auslese (Germany, Rheingau)- from Otis

ROT WEINS
1998 Weingut Beckstein Tauberschwarz Kirchberg (Germany, Franken)
2003 Feiler-Artinger Blaufränkisch Umriss (Burgenland, Austria)
2000 Martinelli Pinot Noir Reserve (California, USA)- from haggis

DESSERT WEINS
1998 Kracher TBA #6 Welschriesling (Burgenland, Austria)- from haggis
2002 Gunderloch Niersteiner Oelberg Riesling Eiswein (Germany, Rheinhessen)- from Anwar

VM

Sound like one heck of a dinner! A great idea...

I posted some notes here:

Albert Mann

Prager

Martinelli


It was, indeed, a great time! Fabulous food by Mrs. VM! Now, about that music....

Edited to fix the link glitch that VM gently pointed out...

This message has been edited. Last edited by: haggis,

Thanks for a wunderbar evening, VM! The wine and food were fabulous, as usual.

My favorites were the '02 Weil and the '03 Muller-Catoir.

Thanks for bringing out the potato gun. It ain't officially Autumn until the spuds start flying over the trees of Glen Ellyn!

Cheers,

Otis

haggis- Your Martinelli link goes to the Prager TN.

Otis- Have you gotten over your frostbite.

VM

fixed the link...thanks VM