18 Jan Lord knows I don’t want to add too much fuel to the fire; it’s already burning well enough to sell all the Lauer GGs we have. On the other hand, the wines are truly extraordinary and I’m not sure how... View Post
19 Nov And other questions for people interested in fruits grown on trees… Yes, one of the more entertaining moments of our trip to Germany in August was sitting with Stefan Vetter, tasting through his just beautiful range of ciders, when we... View Post
21 Jun For Lauer’s 2020 collection we have done our best to get ahead of the drama; last year was a mess with tough allocations and shipping delays – all with very good excuses – but still. It’s not fair to Florian... View Post
09 Jun The soil. Since we already covered the 51st parallel thing, we can go into the soil straight away. Muschelkalk, good old Triassic limestone, provides the general foundation for Saale-Unstrut, the viticultural area where the Saale and Unstrut rivers come together, about an... View Post
07 Apr Here’s one take on an origin story for vom Boden. If it were not for a bottle of 2004 Emrich-Schönleber Frühlingsplätzchen GG, drank at restaurant Montrachet in early 2006, I may never have started vom Boden seven years later.... View Post
24 Mar the 2019 collection and a cellar treat So far as I can tell Hans Josef Becker anticipated the dry wine movement in the Rheingau (and in much of Germany in a way) a few decades before anyone else. Working in the... View Post
22 Feb Rosé offers are the wine world’s own special version of consumerism gone insane. Like holiday displays at department stores, every year the shit comes earlier and earlier and there’s nothing we can do about it. So sorry about that. On the... View Post
02 Feb This is a pre-arrival offer for two wines that, I believe, will delight you, then maybe confuse you… and then delight you again. If you’ve bought, drank or heard about the world’s most famous desert Riesling “Heavy Water” or the evocatively... View Post