10 Jul the advantages of time and space 2016 J.B. Becker Hans-Josef Becker (pictured above) works at his own damn pace. Becker’s wines come to the market nearly always a year (or more) behind everyone else’s wines. If this can sometimes be... View Post
pet-nat ultra-light volume 2 the brothers Brand the new vintage and the laws of anti-gravity The cool climate of the northern Pfalz, and the organic, bio-D, natural ferment hocus-pocus of the brothers Brand, all come together to craft one of... View Post
13 Feb Rosé offers are the wine world’s own special version of consumerism gone mad. Like Christmas displays at department stores, every year the shit comes earlier and earlier. It’s a bit ludicrous and we all know it, but here we are. With... View Post
18 Aug The Luckerts work what has to be one of the oldest producing vineyards in all of Germany, a Silvaner vineyard called Creutz that was planted sometime in the 1870s. Think about this: Someone was planting these vines at about... View Post
16 Aug 2016 Seehof: the breakthrough vintage Florian Fauth’s wines have always been good. They should be: Florian has amazing terroir and he’s the brother-in-law of Klaus Peter Keller, the Rheinhessen’s reigning king. Yet for the last few years,... View Post
29 Jun 2016 Lauer: the ringing purity of the saar Lauer has gone from cult to established blue-chip estate. That’s good. Yet every year we get more orders and (note this) roughly the same amount of wine. That’s not... View Post
20 Jun the cool-climate, mountain finesse of the Mosel, in a rosé This rosé is singular. Literally. In an ocean of rosés from the warmest wine making regions on earth (Italy, Spain, CA, Provence), the Mosel’s joyful... View Post
14 Jun the FINAL 2015 Offer – J.B. Becker HaJo (Hans Josef) Becker doesn’t mince words, so we won’t either.2015 was a historic vintage across all of Germany, and it was simply monumental at Becker. Sitting there, tasting these wines in the... View Post