| The owners of KATITCHE POINT GREATHOUSE take great care to offer you
an unusual selection of French Champagne and white and red wines from Germany,
France and Italy. They cannot be found in Caribbean or U.S. supermarkets.
We courteously invite you to experience some new tastes.
Germany is one of the oldest wine producing areas in the world. Although it never enjoyed the international reputation of France, Germany's white wine used to be found on every connoisseur's wine list before the last world war. Modern German wine makers, who love to drink their wines themselves, have always thought that it is the dry crispiness of a white wine and the fruity flavor of the grapes, which makes a good wine rather than a high alcohol content. It is now for the past five years or so that one of the most prestigious wine regions in south-western Germany, Baden, is experiencing a comeback of small, privately owned wineries that produce most exquisite wines for adequate prices. Again one has to stress that flavor and a dry taste always comes first and that alcohol content depends every year on the sun and general weather conditions. The natural sweetness of the grape juice turns - via a carefully monitored fermentation process - into alcohol. Added sugar, which turns into alcohol too, is not used as a taste enhancer in modern German wine production, to add sugar is the case in most modern, industrial wine productions around the world. The smooth small mountains along the Rhine have always been Germany's most prominent wine areas. Rheingau, Mosel, Nahe, and Ruwer – these names ring familiar bells to many wine lovers around the globe. It is the very Riesling that has so many friends. We offer you quite a selection of Rieslings, some very dry, some slightly sweet, some deliberately sweet. There has not been any sugar added to these wines, the sweetness is retained from the grape juice. The wine makers just stop the process of fermentation and it is the totally natural product, which leaves the very elegant sweetness to your taste.
We invite you to go on a wine tasting experience, which will take some
glasses to get used to. German White's, Rose's and Red's do not overpower
your gums and taste buds - what you might perceive as a first taste as
light and without depth, is in fact a delicate, dry and crisp experience
for the mouth and the stomach. Please bear with us, when we explain the
German wines more elaborately. However, unknown things need to be explained!
We do not need to introduce our favorite wines from France, Italy and Spain at length. Their exquisite taste experiences speak for themselves. You must always drink all the white, rosé and you may drink some of the red wines on this menu chilled, i.e. the wine should never have a temperature above 4°-6° Celsius / 39°-42° Fahrenheit. The great reds on this list should never be consumed warm, i.e. should never have a temperature above 18° Celsius. The owners of KATITCHE POINT GREATHOUSE guarantee the superb quality
of our selection, if you are willing to follow new avenues of taste. We
think our selection goes extremely well with the sunny and tropical climate
of the Caribbean. The presented wines, if consumed with moderation, are
an ideal companion of a happy vacation!
 We would like to make two suggestions (don't tell anybody, as all the experts might frown!): If it is hot and you want to consume a refreshing, tasteful and invigorating drink, we suggest two traditional recipes our grandparents loved: You can't do any better in summer! Obviously both of the above have to be served ice-cold.  We could write a book on the origin of this most famous Baden-grape, called the Gutedel. Many wine historians debate its origin. It is now found only in the Markgraefler-region of south-west Germany. This signature wine makes a light, pleasant and dry addition to all white meats and fish and is most perfect as a sipping wine or “Spritzer” with sparkling water. We like our good friends Doerflinger in Muellheim, who are champions of dry in Baden. Try it! Highly recommended! The Riesling-grape enjoys a worldwide reputation as the king of white
wines. One immediately associates the regions of Mosel, Rheingau, Nahe
and Ruwer as the most prominent German Riesling-regions. The excellent
and well known private winery Schloss Lieser - managed by Thomas Haag of
the famous wine dynasty Haag- makes this easy drinking, highly enjoyable
dry Riesling, which goes down so well in this hot climate. Our day to day
wine. We love it!
In Germany one distinguishes between three classifications of high quality
wine. They are in rising order: Kabinett, Spätlese and Auslese.
This dry Kabinett Riesling is the best dry Riesling, we are offering. The
fantastic small winery Karthäuserhof was once an insider choice. Today
these Rieslings are much thought after in the whole country. This 2007
is a real treat, if you like your Riesling dry, crisp and with a rather
low alcohol content. Enjoy one more bottle!
Egon Mueller is is about to become famous not only in Germany, he is
more and more known around the globe as a maker of a fine edelsuess
Rieslings in the Mosel area. His Witlingen Schwarzhof is a
beautiful example of a Riesling with some sweetness. Again, this is not
a desert wine, this is to be enjoyed ice-cold as an aperitif before dinner,
or just try a bottle in the late afternoon instead of a cocktail. We guarantee
you will enjoy this fine wine, with its comparatively low alcohol content
immensely.
Fritz Haag is one of Germanys living legends when it comes to fine Rieslings.
His wines are often sold as quickly as he puts them on the open market
and are very difficult to get. We are thrilled to be able to present you
this acclaimed edelsuess Riesling, Kabinett, from Fritz Haag. This is perfection.
If you like this light extremly drinkable companion with a fine and delicate
taste – treat yourself to this experience as long as we can offer
it!
We cannot possibly have a white wine list without French Chablis. This
gem is one of our favourites. Lots of body and yet dry and crisp, exactly
what you expect from Chablis of this calibre vineyard. Excellent with fish
and white meat.
The Domain Pierre Morey is one of the finest, if not the best producer of one of Frances white wine legends, the Mersault. This signature white burgundy from the area Mersault is one of the wonderfully bodied, crisp and rich in taste white wines you can find in France. You should consume it with your freshly caught fish from the ocean – a wonderfull treat! This is the premier white on our wine list and the owners are very happy to consume it themselves. The Loire Valley is the home of the famous Sancerre, which has become
a household name for an excellent French white wine, which can be consumed
at all seasons. Crochet is a master of the art and we are very fortunate
to present you this excellent Sancerre, which closes our white wine selection.
Rose wines have regained reputation in recent years, rightly so! Gone are the days of sweet sugar water with all the negative side effects on the next morning. The Provence has been the home of some very excellent Rose wines for almost centuries. We offer you one of our favorite Rose wines for drinking during the day or light meals. A treat! The red pinot noir grape, which is harvested at the Kaiserstuhl in Baden,
the hottest area of Germany is of muscular, yet velvet taste. It matures
twelve month in a traditional large oak barrel, there it acquires some
nice tannins and the nose depicts flavour of excellent wild berries. The
privately owned winery Huber has done amazing work these last years and
has steadily pushed their Pinot Noir to the forefront of German red burgundys.
This is a uniquely balanced, harmonious and yet complex structured Bordeaux from Haut-Medoc. It is full with body and strength and will go very well with red meats and grilled foods of any sort. Make this you special dinner treat! We are very happy to offer this wine in a Magnum bottle as well for an extremely reasonable price. An excellent year 2003 in Pauillac in Bordeaux, an excellent vinyard of highest reputation, and a great 5e Grand Cru Classe Bordeaux. This is the very best Claret on our wine list. Vanilla, red berries, some nice tannins, you name it – this ultra smooth and yet voluptuous Bordeaux is the high point of your meal or you celebrate it just by itself with some good cheese and bread. This is our favourite Bordeaux celebrity! For the evening together! The Chianti region in Tuscany, Italy, has enjoyed a well published rise
in wine quality in the last decade. One of the finest private wineries
is the winery Agricola Querciabella. This fine wine is made by biodynamic
viticulture and is only available in special restaurants and selected wine
merchants around Southern Europe. We are proud to offer this extremely
reasonably priced award winning Chianti Classico, an excellent red wine
for the hotter climates.
The Rosso di Montalcino is often described as the little brother of
the great Brunello. This is an understatement! We are fortunate to have
the fresh and modern wines of Tuscanys legendary producer Lisini
on our wine list. His Rosso di Montalcino is a very nice, full bodied and
yet easy and smoothly drinking - typical Italian - red wine. For the BBQ
dinner! All this for a very interesting price too!
This Brunello by Lisini is from excellent year in Italy of 2003
and can be rightly described as one of the premier wines from this famous
winyard. If you like the deep red colour, the well balanced taste and the
raunchy body of a masterpiece of Italian wine making than this extremely
well priced Brunello is for you! I would drink it after dinner when looking
into the skies and pondering: why do we ever have to go home? Please do
leave some for the owners!
We would rather keep this wine to ourselves. If you like a Barolo and if you find that it is this special mood that makes you decide to open a grand Barolo rather than a Brunello of similar quality and if you frown at people, who don’t get the difference, than we cannot do better that this masterpiece by Cascina Ballarin. Drink and believe! In these days no wine list is complete without some fine Spanish reds. This very nice full bodied and yet well balanced wine from the best known locally Bodegas Finca y Vinedos Dehesa La Granja . It goes well with all meats and vegetables and has a welcome light touch to it. Try it chilled! This is a highly enjoyable Ribera from a strong local winery the Bodegas Arzuaga-Navarro. The taste of ripe fruits, spices and earthy tones make this excellent easily drinkable red wine from Spain a perfect companion for the late evening. For an affordable long lasting taste, it gets hardly better than this red gem.
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The
young and fresh wines we present to you from Germany have been harvested,
barreled and bottled with utmost care and the use of next to none artificial
additives.