I confess I’m on a Hiedler jag the past few years. The wines have always been singular among the “names” of the Kamptal – though these...

He shall henceforth be referred to as he refers to himself – Bobby. As far as I know, “Robert” was solely a feature of his importer’s...

This is the order in which I tasted them, flying blind to some degree, as proprietor Anna Reimann seems to be one of the enlightened...

I’d always try to climb the Lemberg hill before I arrived at the winery. It’s a good stiff walk, about thirty minutes, steep but not...

It would not have been easy, running my usual schedule along the Mosel tasting the young ‘21s. Even with the mere fifteen bottles here,...

I zipped through a bunch of wines at the Boston pre-arrival tasting recently. It was odd and somewhat distressing to taste that way,...

I confess, even I am sometimes (and incoherently) tempted to think of Nicolas Chiquet’s Champagnes as middle of the road – at least until...

When I went around Germany in May 2022, people asked me how I liked the baby ‘21s and I was happy to say “I like them!” As indeed I did....

This is to say, the wines he sent me some time in the middle of last year, which reached me around All Saints Day, and to which I’m...

I first met Bernd in 1982, in Munich, where I was living at the time. A wine pal of mine was his agent for that market, and I was invited...