21 Jul Einleitung | introduction Consistent with our philosophy to overinvest in the absurd (and at a time when the market is, well, “unenthused” let’s say, because of inflation and wars, and I suppose partly because of politics and the decline of... View Post
17 Jan Vom Boden: Ten Years of Hocks & Moselles is exactly 190 pages and includes stories from the beginning of vom Boden, including our fears, philosophies and why it’s easier to get a colonoscopy than to sell wine in all fifty... View Post
11 Dec The new releases from Vollenweider – the 2022 Prädikats and one Grand Cru dry from 2021 (the Schimbock) – have arrived. Now we could just ignore the multitude of complex and difficult issues woven into the context of these wines... View Post
18 Aug This morning, after about three to four weeks of feeling like I misjudged the 2022 vintage a bit, an essential truth popped into my head. A truth so obvious and easy to grasp, that I felt more than a bit... View Post
23 Jun introduction | Einleitung Vintage 2021, no matter how you look at it, was serious. Vintage 2022 is something different. Vintage 2022 feels to me like joy, in liquid form. The best wines of 2022 almost force you to smile, as... View Post
23 Jul On Friday, July 22nd, my friend, the Mosel grower Daniel Vollenweider, passed away. Daniel was diagnosed with late-stage prostate cancer in July of 2019. He was an intensely private person. While most of Daniel’s close friends and colleagues knew that... View Post
26 May Dear wine friends, We greet you all warmly from Flörsheim-Dalsheim. As is tradition, we spent the first days of the new year tasting the 2021 vintage out of barrel with the whole family and we have good news: 2021 brings... View Post
24 Sep On Tuesday, September 21, 2021 – exactly 50 years after the 1971 German wine law created “the Kabinett” as the lowest category level on the Prädikat ladder (ascending from Kabinett to Spätlese, Auslese and beyond) – Julian Haart’s 2020... View Post