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...

Well some of them anyway, as they only sent nine wines, and a couple things were/are conspicuously absent, such as the (probably...

On the third day I re-tasted these, I will pause for a gratitude. This will be the last day for a while that I can have the samples at an...

Before you hear my rant about the mis-understandings of the idea of typicality, do take a moment to romp through the new Darting...

There are below-ground flavors and above-ground flavors; Selbach-Oster wines helped teach me that. The below-ground flavors are similar...