With Rieslingfeier less than a week away (and the main tasting and gala events totally sold out), we figured we’d send out a quick summary regarding all the Rieslingfeier-adjacent events with our growers in New York City this week and early next.
Unfortunately, it’s a short list, only three events, but they run the gamut from a *very* serious mid-career retrospective dinner at Oiji Mi with Florian Lauer and Frank Schönleber in attendance, to a BYOB-dinner and party at Oma Grassa with Lukas Hammelmann and a “turntable” wine-flights event at Compagnie.
We have provided more information and links below to purchase tickets. Please let us know if you have any questions at info@vomboden.com and thank you!
We hope to see you at an event!
Florian Lauer and Frank Schönleber:
A Mid-Career Retrospective Dinner
Oiji Mi, Tuesday, January 21st, 7:30pm
This will be an epic dinner, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to sit with both winemakers and to compare the greatness of the Nahe (Emrich-Schönleber) with that of the Saar (Lauer). For over a century wine critics have compared these two regions (including Frank Schoonmaker in his 1956 book The Wines of Germany) for their inherent austerity, delicacy, intensity… magic.
On Tuesday, January 21st at Oiji Mi, we will sit down with both winemakers and a curated selection of their top wines (see below) from 2009, 2017, 2020, 2021, and the just-released 2023ers, including rare auction and magnum-format bottles. Chef Kim has designed a seven-course pairing menu for these statuesque dry and off-dry Rieslings.
Tickets are $425. This is the one and only consumer event the winemakers will do outside of the Rieslingfeier events. Click here to purchase tickets.
We will be pouring:
1992 Lauer Sekt Reserve
2022 Emrich-Schönleber Niederberg 1G
2023 Lauer Ayler 1G
2023 Emrich-Schönleber Halenberg GG
2023 Lauer Schonfels GG
2021 Emrich-Schönleber Auf der Lay GG Auction 1.5L
2021 Lauer Lambertskirch GG Auction 1.5L
2020 Emrich-Schönleber Auf der Lay GG Auction
2020 Lauer Schonfels GG Auction 1.5L
2017 Emrich-Schönleber Halenberg GG
2017 Lauer Schonfels GG
2009 Emrich-Schönleber Halenberg GG 1.5L
2009 Lauer Schonfels GG 1.5L
Lukas Hammelmann “Potatoes and Onions” Dinner
A pre-Feier Dinner and BYOB Party!
Oma Grassa, Thursday, January 16th, 6:30pm
This is going to be the one and only pre-Rieslingfeier FEIER – a BYOB celebration featuring three courses and three flights at Brooklyn’s Oma Grassa. $150 gets you three courses and three progressions of Hammelmann’s dazzling wines – and guests are welcome to bring bottles of wine they think Lukas might enjoy… the vom Boden team will be there with some fun things from our own cellar.
We hope to see you there.
To purchase tickets, please click here.
Lukas Hammelmann “Turntable” at Compagnie Center St.
Compagnie, Wednesday, January 15th, 7-10pm
The perfect way to be introduced to – or to continue your studies of – the dazzling wines of newcomer Lukas Hammelmann: a flight of four wines, including two Pinot Noirs (Spätburgunder) and two dry Rieslings for only $35. These are forceful, chiseled wines in the style of Emrich-Schönleber or Schäfer-Fröhlich. Lukas, who will be there and has curated the playlist, is a ball of energy and smiles and a scholar of German wine. You can come whenever you like and enjoy one or two flights or more.
Reserve your spot with Resy here or just show up at Compagnie any time between 7 and 10pm.
Lukas Hammelmann and his exquisite taste in T-shirts.