17 Mar We probably first heard Max Kilburg’s name when he worked with Julian Haart a few years ago. They live only a few minutes from each other, in neighboring villages, and are both among the more consequential owners of the top... 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
22 Nov Making sense of the wines of Markus Sonntag, giving them their proper context, is no easy task. Markus is not really a winemaker, at least in any traditional way. He has, as it turns out, a day job in Vienna... View Post
29 Sep Can you say “Versteigerung”? We knew you could For over five years, vom Boden has been offering complete services for the German Versteigerungen – the VDP and the Bernkasteler Ring auctions – including bidding, consolidation and importation for private collectors and... 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
10 Sep We have worked with Daniel and Jonas Daniel Brand (pictured above, left to right) for about a decade. In this short time period, they have essentially reinvented the family estate, converting to organic viticulture, bringing the cellar to only natural ferments and completely... View Post