Stadt Klingenberg – A New Rising Star In Franconia
It’s easy to define Würzburg and the surrounding villages as Franconia. That is, Franken…
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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…
Reflections of a wine lover – report #55
> The Breh-tan-oh-MY-sees, or just simply Brett, were there; barnyard, saddle leather and horse sweat.…