18 Mar “For the sake of the cultural, social, environmental, and economic vitality of the entire region, Ulli Stein is calling for a concerted, widespread effort to save the remaining vines of the Mosel. He urges winemakers to pay above-market prices for the grapes purchased from... View Post
06 Mar Yesterday The New York Times printed a beautiful piece regarding the new wave of German Chardonnay by Eric Asimov. The article was largely (though not totally) based on a dinner organized by the collector (and friend) Robert Dentice. The event included over twenty... View Post
06 Jan Note to reader: Not that we have ever been shy with word-counts, but with the new year we are going to resist every impulse to dumb things down, to economize, to summarize, to make things slick or easy. The world... View Post
06 Jan Both Lauer and Schönleber will be coming to Rieslingfeier, January 18th in New York! While the Gala Dinner is sold out, there are some tickets available to the Grand Tasting; for only $75 you can taste roughly 60 wines from... View Post
23 Oct For well over five years now, vom Boden has been offering an unparalleled deep-dive into one of the most magical and curious facets of German wine culture: the German wine auctions. The 2024 German wine auctions will unfurl, back-to-back,... View Post
15 Sep Vom Boden has partnered with Rieslingfeier to design and publish a new map of the Mosel based on the famous 19th-century German tax maps. The original art was drawn by Stephen Bitterolf and this new map combines, with reckless abandon,... View Post
04 Sep Chapter 1: Introduction I first tasted Lukas’ wines in the summer of 2020, during the height of the pandemic lockdown. While I had heard about him – and thus kindly asked for samples as European travel was not really feasible... View Post
24 Aug I first met Justin when he worked at Uva in Brooklyn just about 20 years ago; Uva at the time being essentially a closet-sized space in Williamsburg’s Bedford Avenue mini-mall. We both fell into wine accidentally, almost surprised where we... View Post