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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Apr
Keller: the paradigm beyond “GG” or “TBA” 2016 Pettenthal Kabi /2016 Abtserde Spät (please note that these wines have sold out) If you want to make a “great” wine in the current German-wine hierarchy, you have two options. If you want to... View Post
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Apr
picture above right copyright Andreas Durst petnat ultra-light introducing the brothers Brand Pet Nat from Germany that tastes exactly like you’d hope it would. It’s like those you already know and love from France, but racier, leaner and more bracing…fresher.... View Post