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...

First a note on what will be a posting hiatus from now until the end of July, as the gentleman who actually executes this website enjoys...

If you happen not to have caught the tasting report on Schloss Gobelsburg that ran last week on World Of Fine Wine’s website, they have...

This tasting report is first being published on the website of World Of Fine Wines. They’re running it in three parts, concluding...

It was seventeen wines in all, and the tasting “report” runs to more than four thousand words. I like being fully immersed. In the coming...