Lots of tasting to report on today. My report on Schloss Lieser is up and running on World Of Fine Wines, with part-2 appearing today,...

A BRIEF WRAPUP ON THE 2021 SECOND FLUSH DARJEELINGS Readers interested in the basic background information on this topic – and readers...

Christian Dautel sent me the missing links from his first shipment, the wines that weren’t ready or not yet bottled or just ones he...

I delayed this report a few days so I could hear back from Jerome Dehours – who is currently in harvest – about some concerns I had with...

Andi Spreizter reminded me we’d known each other (and worked together) for twenty years. A pity we can’t get together to celebrate…....

As a wine professional in the mercantile sense, my relationships to the wines I worked with were quite particular. A few months after the...

David Schildknecht and I heard the buzz about Weingart at the same time, but David got there first. Some time later I sat with David on...

BITS AND PIECES Geezers like me might possibly remember, if we ever developed film, watching the print materialize in the liquid. I think...

Just a short report as the estate sent just six wines to taste, based (presumably) on what they usually exported to The States. The long...

Reading Robert MacFarlane’s introduction to Nan Shepherd’s masterpiece The Living Mountain, I learned of a new concept apropos to my...