First, a small note. These visit impressions will be out of sequence depending on whether I wrote notes directly into the computer – the...

These are quick and dirty impressions of wines I’ll taste in detail later in the year. The notes are by no means definitive, nor was I...

You must have seen that funny piece that came through the transom (via three different senders; the thing was everywhere) about “The...

Some friends recently described their opinions on restaurant food, and while they had strong views, those views were deeply earned by...

You’ll have noticed, if your life is so drab and wretched that you’ve had time to read my previous posts, that I talk about the...

You know the blues classic “Rolling And Tumbling?” The sub-headline for the 2020 vintage could very well read, Soaring And Plummeting....

I’ll keep this brief, as the tasting report is running to nearly 13,000 words. It was always an all-day task, tasting the new vintage at...

Full disclosure; I have a small-scaled but very sweet commercial relationship with this estate, whereby I broker them to a couple old...

It slipped my mind how much I love these wines. Shame on me! When I first met them, and Willi himself, it was 1978 and Willi’s first...

It was another time when wines changed over the days, and so I found myself thinking – yet again – of the way we taste and the judgments...