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
18 Sep Below we present the results from select lots in the three major auctions of the September German auction season. Mosel VDP Auction Lot 5: 2022 Lauer Lambertskirch GG – 180 euro Lot 6: 2022 Lauer Lambertskirch GG Magnum – 320... View Post
01 Sep For well over five years now, vom Boden has been offering an unparalleled deep-dive into one of the most magical and curious facets of German wine culture: the German wine auctions. This year, to be honest, we’ve gone a bit... View Post
18 Aug This morning, after about three to four weeks of feeling like I misjudged the 2022 vintage a bit, an essential truth popped into my head. A truth so obvious and easy to grasp, that I felt more than a bit... View Post