Innere Leiste – Wines With A Sense Of Place
“An amazing bouquet and palate of nothing.” Evil tounges might dismiss Silvaner for being…
Browsing: Germany
Stadt Klingenberg – A New Rising Star In Franconia
It’s easy to define Würzburg and the surrounding villages as Franconia. That is, Franken…
Impressions From Franken
1997. My very first wine trip. Destination? Franken. 16 years later; Franken revisited. Four…
Austrian wine adventures – Part 4; The liquid gold of Burgenland
Hot summers and cold winters. The Neusiedlersee basically does all the work. Without the lake…
2003; a Mosel Magic Vintage?
2003. Only the patient will find out, but something’s telling me that when we sum…
Are you a Gewurztraminer sceptic?
Floral, or maybe better described, perfumed white’s are obviously wines of controversy placing consumers…
Wow! Strawberries, yeah! Strawberries; not the cheese…
I could write a novel on this one – on the theme of pure…
Schist or Petroleum?
I remember sitting in the old doctor’s office with Michael Stahlmann, the marketing and export…
New adventures in Spätburgunder
Half a year of sampling through a bunch of German Spätburgunder wines in the…
A cool Keller
I bought quite a lot of the 2004 Dalsheimer Hubacker Riesling Spätlese in its…
The Baden battle
I like them both and find it hard to pick a favourite. Should I though…
It’s time for Steinwein!
It’s sadly more than ten years since I visited the Franken region in Germany. This…
Freiherr von Gleichenstein: 2006 Oberrotweiler Eichberg
Diluted wine juice? Or perhaps one of those modern rosé’s which seem to have lost…
Spotlight on Spätburgunder: Thomas Hensel
It shouldn’t have come as a surprise to me that the Merlot grape can turn…