One of my favorite growers (and people) whom I have watched, happily, as he emerged from his tentative beginnings and arrived at a place...

This admirably compact portfolio avoids the sprawl that affects so many other Austrian wineries. It is only Grüner Veltliner and...

Kelli A. White WINE CONFIDENT I have a very high opinion of Kelli White, dating back to when she interviewed me as part of a general...

I’m high-spotting, and this is why; I’m forming a hypothesis to the effect that the 2023 vintage was sometimes unkind to certain Austrian...

“Curious” only because it included a few of the early-bottled 2023s, and then jumped to the 2021 Smaragds, leapfrogging over most of the...

I wish to share this remarkable document of one grower’s experience of the 2024 Champagne harvest. I think it is a lovely document,...

I do not live in Darjeeling, and I have never visited there. I do not claim expertise. I do know how to ask the right questions to people...

They were picking grapes at SCHLOSS LIESER but I had a chance to schmooze with Thomas Haag (on his forklift) about the election – he...

Germany was interesting, but not for the reasons I expected. First of all you couldn’t get anywhere, and then you couldn’t see anything,...

Dautel is the story of today’s Württemberg in microcosm. It’s also the story of the contemporary wine drinker, who are fewer in number...