04 Mar “…as Stein says, it’s worth [trying to save the terraces of the Mosel], if not for lovers of Mosel Riesling, then at least to honor the old Riesling vines themselves, which have earned a chance to be protected from thorns.”... View Post
22 Feb At this point, in the late winter of 2024, thankfully the rosé fad is slowing down and the category is entering a more healthy, sustainable phase. That’s great. Let’s just give this category of wine its due. It is a... View Post
17 Jan Vom Boden: Ten Years of Hocks & Moselles is exactly 190 pages and includes stories from the beginning of vom Boden, including our fears, philosophies and why it’s easier to get a colonoscopy than to sell wine in all fifty... View Post
17 Dec It was a running joke. If we were still in business after ten years we said we’d throw a crazy party in the Mosel, at Ulli Stein’s “Haus Waldfrieden.” We’d bring our families and our loved ones and invite... View Post
11 Dec The new releases from Vollenweider – the 2022 Prädikats and one Grand Cru dry from 2021 (the Schimbock) – have arrived. Now we could just ignore the multitude of complex and difficult issues woven into the context of these wines... View Post
28 Nov After having loved, truly loved, the Moselle for well over twenty years, I taste through this 2022 Ludes collection and it hits me once again, just how exceptional, how utterly unique, how irreproducible the Moselle is. I wrote this silly... View Post
27 Nov These are very limited wines; we email once a year about them. They tend to sell-through quickly so please do take note. Erik Longabardi and Benford Lepley are doing something just utterly soulful and inspiring and it registers, quite obviously,... View Post
11 Oct Emrich-Schönleber’s premier cru and grand cru dry Rieslings – the Niederberg 1G, Frühlingsplätzchen GG, and Halenberg GG – have just arrived. These wines represent, without question, the highest echelon of German dry Riesling. They are also the deals of the contemporary GG landscape.... View Post