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
29 Jun 2016 Lauer: the ringing purity of the saar Lauer has gone from cult to established blue-chip estate. That’s good. Yet every year we get more orders and (note this) roughly the same amount of wine. That’s not... View Post
20 Jun the cool-climate, mountain finesse of the Mosel, in a rosé This rosé is singular. Literally. In an ocean of rosés from the warmest wine making regions on earth (Italy, Spain, CA, Provence), the Mosel’s joyful... View Post
14 Jun the FINAL 2015 Offer – J.B. Becker HaJo (Hans Josef) Becker doesn’t mince words, so we won’t either.2015 was a historic vintage across all of Germany, and it was simply monumental at Becker. Sitting there, tasting these wines in the... View Post
12 Apr Keller: the paradigm beyond “GG” or “TBA” 2016 Pettenthal Kabi /2016 Abtserde Spät (please note that these wines have sold out) If you want to make a “great” wine in the current German-wine hierarchy, you have two options. If you want to... View Post
05 Apr picture above right copyright Andreas Durst petnat ultra-light introducing the brothers Brand Pet Nat from Germany that tastes exactly like you’d hope it would. It’s like those you already know and love from France, but racier, leaner and more bracing…fresher.... View Post
25 Jan “for the love of old vines” part 1 of a 2-part miniseries saving the terraces of the upper Mosel for about $20 For the 2015 vintage, I received 37 cases of Hild’s Elbling “Zehnkommanull.” To me, these are... View Post