09 Sep This is not a 2020 German vintage report. But I’ve tasted a lot of the damn wines, from grower samples beginning way back in March to the normal releases coming as they come, and I wanted to share some thoughts.... View Post
26 Aug We’re not selling anything today; we’re just asking for your help. As many of you know, Germany’s Ahr valley – an amazing cultural treasure with a long history of viticulture – was ravaged by what meteorologists are calling a “mega-flood”... 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
26 May I’ve known Klaus Peter and Julia Keller for, gulp, nearly 15 years. In 2006 or so, KP emailed me out of the blue, encouragingly reacting to some writing on German wine I had done. And this is, in short, is... View Post
20 May In 2010 the Serbian conceptual artist Marina Abramović performed a nearly 3-month, daily, 8-hour session at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, seated silently behind a wooden table, making eye contact with anyone who sat down opposite her.... 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