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Jun
Einleitung | introduction Last year I began the vintage report noting the relatively unenthused market, wondering whether it was all “because of inflation and wars, or because of our politics and the decline of western culture, or our lack of... View Post
14
May
The Death of the Vintage Report: Long Live the Vintage Report Every vintage report I’ve written for the last five-plus years has had some version of the following notes baked into it. While these ideas seem just too important to... View Post
17
Apr
Vom Boden: Ten Years of Hocks & Moselles was first published in the fall of 2023, to celebrate our 10th anniversary. The book is exactly 190 pages and includes stories from the beginning of vom Boden, including our fears, philosophies... View Post
21
Jul
Einleitung | introduction Consistent with our philosophy to overinvest in the absurd (and at a time when the market is, well, “unenthused” let’s say, because of inflation and wars, and I suppose partly because of politics and the decline of... View Post
11
Dec
The new releases from Vollenweider – the 2022 Prädikats and one Grand Cru dry from 2021 (the Schimbock) – have arrived. Now we could just ignore the multitude of complex and difficult issues woven into the context of these wines... View Post
18
Aug
This morning, after about three to four weeks of feeling like I misjudged the 2022 vintage a bit, an essential truth popped into my head. A truth so obvious and easy to grasp, that I felt more than a bit... View Post
23
Jun
introduction | Einleitung Vintage 2021, no matter how you look at it, was serious. Vintage 2022 is something different. Vintage 2022 feels to me like joy, in liquid form. The best wines of 2022 almost force you to smile, as... View Post
23
Jul
On Friday, July 22nd, my friend, the Mosel grower Daniel Vollenweider, passed away. Daniel was diagnosed with late-stage prostate cancer in July of 2019. He was an intensely private person. While most of Daniel’s close friends and colleagues knew that... View Post