Niersteiner

Niersteiner, nēr′stī-ner, n. a variety of Rhine wine, named from Nierstein, near Mainz.

With the first course of the dinner there should be served a white wine of some kind, such as Niersteiner, Hochheimer, or Liebfrauenmilch amongst the Rhine wines; Zeltinger, Josephshöfer, or Scharzberger Muscatel amongst the Moselle wines; Haut Barsac, Haut Sauterne, or Château Yquem amongst the white Bordeaux wines; and Chablis, Nuersault or Montrachet amongst the white Burgundies.

Without loving care, with only cheap grapes and a different sort of magic, one of their number had produced something that millions of Germans mistook for fine Liebfraumilch, Niersteiner Domthal and other famed wines of the area.

Margaux, 1893 66/- 3 6 0   2 ” A. Niersteiner 24/- 2 8 0           14 14 0         �3800 8 2         100 With a view still further to split up the work, thus enabling a large staff to be simultaneously engaged, the ledger itself is now generally kept in sections.

Let him pay due homage to the worthies of old time there by tasting them, one glass of each per diem; but let him not fail to wash them down speedily with a bottle of twenty-year old Niersteiner or R�desheimer.