23 Aug 2017 Lauer: Grand Crus and rarities just order and get back to the beach 2017 is another one of those perplexing, confusing, the-story-depends-on-the-address type of vintage. Well here’s one fact about the vintage at chez Lauer: 2017 takes the finesse of 2016... View Post
03 Aug Please note all retail prices are estimates and may be higher/lower depending on your geography! more info on Floral Terranes CIDERS 2017 Floral Terranes Cider, “Outlands” ~$13 retail This is a collection of the moraine sites, running along the north... View Post
01 Aug burning the playbook 2017 ~Pur~ from the Brothers Brand The direct translation of “Pur” is the following: “pure, neat, sheer.” Every definition would apply perfectly to the 0-sulfur wines from brothers Daniel and Jonas Brand. Already well known for their... View Post
10 Jul the advantages of time and space 2016 J.B. Becker Hans-Josef Becker (pictured above) works at his own damn pace. Becker’s wines come to the market nearly always a year (or more) behind everyone else’s wines. If this can sometimes be... View Post
pet-nat ultra-light volume 2 the brothers Brand the new vintage and the laws of anti-gravity The cool climate of the northern Pfalz, and the organic, bio-D, natural ferment hocus-pocus of the brothers Brand, all come together to craft one of... View Post
13 Feb Rosé offers are the wine world’s own special version of consumerism gone mad. Like Christmas displays at department stores, every year the shit comes earlier and earlier. It’s a bit ludicrous and we all know it, but here we are. With... View Post
18 Aug The Luckerts work what has to be one of the oldest producing vineyards in all of Germany, a Silvaner vineyard called Creutz that was planted sometime in the 1870s. Think about this: Someone was planting these vines at about... View Post
16 Aug 2016 Seehof: the breakthrough vintage Florian Fauth’s wines have always been good. They should be: Florian has amazing terroir and he’s the brother-in-law of Klaus Peter Keller, the Rheinhessen’s reigning king. Yet for the last few years,... View Post