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...

LANGUAGE POLICE AT IT AGAIN Political gadfly James Carville teaches at LSU, and on one celebratory occasion he decided to demonstrate for...

It’s hardly a surprise that I love these wines both subjectively and for very good reason. I like red wines that lead with fruit. They...

The Germans have a word – sympathisch – which doesn’t mean “sympathetic” but is one of those words that resists direct translation....

Katie was a wine pal of mine whom I kept in loose touch with. As it happens, wine is the thing she writes most soberly about. You’ll see...

The ‘22’ vintage wasn’t always kind to Riesling growers, among whom there were variations, not precisely in “quality” but rather in...

This will be the first time I’ve gotten to taste these wines at home, as a previous shipment was lost.  Thus a little intro may be in...