It happens my tasting schedule is all torn up this coming week, so I decided to seize a couple open days and start by tasting the three...

(A LION OF THE RHEINGAU, AND HIS LATEST SAMPLES); WEINGUT KUENSTLER, HOCHHEIM Everyone should have interesting friends. Of course we love...

Before starting in on the samples, I had a quick look at a few 2023’s last week, not enough to offer a judgment but enough to offer a...

For some reason I always seem to be tasting these when our crabapple tree is blossoming. When I visited the estate there was always a...

Note: I’m listing these in sequence from dry to sweet, but I actually tasted them in three flights, one per day, with each flight...

A double-header here, partly because I’m getting backed up on tasting reports, and partly because I like the implied contrast between a...

Sheesh! Did you know there are now 480 RM Champagne growers exporting to the Unites States? That’s a gain of 69 in just the last year....

Before reading my thoughts on Gobelsburg's wines, a brief reminder how I deploy my “plusses.” Because they can be misconstrued if you...

ANOTHER SHOE DROPS, ANOTHER HERO FALLS R.I.P Alfred Merkelbach Alfred died the morning of the 14th, in a hospital in Bernkastel. He’d...

I sometimes wonder whether the accumulation of aesthetic memory turns eventually into a felt sense. I don’t know, but if it does it makes...