11 Mar 2018 Stein Riesling “1900”
what we talk about, when we talk about love This is, more than anything else, a love story.
Offer
11 Mar 
29 Feb “for the love of old vines”
saving the terraces of the upper Mosel for under $25
To celebrate the final day of Felbling – a Leapbling year as it was – we wanted to get serious for a moment and offer out one of the most sacred and meaningful bottles of wine we import: Matthias Hild’s old-vine,... View Post
24 Feb Spring Rosé Offer
(and F you tariffs but we kept sharp pricing)
Rosé offers are the wine world’s own special version of consumerism gone mad. Like holiday displays at department stores, every year the shit comes earlier and earlier and there’s nothing we can do about it. Sorry. That said, on the other... View Post
13 Jan Alto Swabia – Shattering the Absurd Narrative We’ve Been Sold about German Wine…
Let’s start 2020 by beginning to re-write the easy narratives that defined much of the 20th century. For most of this time, the whole of vinous Germany was reduced to one grape. A damn fine grape to be sure, but still. The... View Post
04 Dec The World’s Greatest Dornfelder and other Brilliant Eccentricities: Brand “Pur”
The direct translation of “Pur” is the following: “pure, neat, sheer.” None of these definitions seem even remotely appropriate for most zero-sulfur wines; yet the brothers Brand, Daniel and Jonas, created a small, yet brilliant and ethereal collection in 2018. The cool-climates did... View Post
15 Nov
3 Magnums and 7 Other ways to irk your family
Yes, it’s tragically cliched to offer Riesling and/or magnums for the Thanksgiving table, the narrative at this point being so tired it’s less like kicking a dead horse, and more like kicking at the spot where the horse died a decade earlier. Still,... View Post
13 Sep The German Wine Auctions: the Incomprehensible Magic of Wine
The German wine auctions, held once a year at the end of September (this year, Friday and Sunday, September 20 and 22), are little understood in the U.S. While the easy selling line is something like, “this is your chance... View Post
08 Aug Ulli Stein – “never for money, always for love”
David Byrne has described his 1984 tune Naive Melody as a love song full of non sequiturs. I’ve been thinking about writing something a bit more meaningful about Stein a long time, and listening to the Talking Heads last night, hearing this song,... View Post