Boy, have I lived with these wines. It’s 13 days since I started tasting them, and in that time we have drunk almost nothing else (other...

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,...