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  • In the early days it was called the red drinker's white because it had a complexity rarely found in other whites - which wouldn't be hard when you're talking moselle and faux-riesling - as well as a powerful dose of alcohol.

    What I cooked last night. 2006

  • This drove me crazy, because I knew there was more to white wine than just moselle and riesling: there was hock.

    Archive 2006-10-01 2006

  • In the early days it was called the red drinker's white because it had a complexity rarely found in other whites - which wouldn't be hard when you're talking moselle and faux-riesling - as well as a powerful dose of alcohol.

    Archive 2006-10-01 2006

  • In fact, there was a number of other varieties and nearly all of them were better than moselle and riesling - which usually wasn't riesling but something else - but moselle and riesling dominated the market.

    What I cooked last night. 2006

  • This drove me crazy, because I knew there was more to white wine than just moselle and riesling: there was hock.

    What I cooked last night. 2006

  • In fact, there was a number of other varieties and nearly all of them were better than moselle and riesling - which usually wasn't riesling but something else - but moselle and riesling dominated the market.

    Archive 2006-10-01 2006

  • “Wade, wade through the water,” and as he was the first, began to set out and went into the moselle.

    Household Tales 2003

  • She unpacked the salad rolls as Reith produced ice-cold moselle and poured.

    Bush Doctor's Bride Lennox, Marion 1996

  • He settled them outside, filled their glasses with ice - cold moselle and bustled off to see to their order.

    Bush Doctor's Bride Lennox, Marion 1996

  • Wexford asked Mr Haq for a bottle of wine, good moselle or a riesling, none of your living waters from Lake Victoria.

    Put On By Cunning Rendell, Ruth, 1930- 1981

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