06
Mar
Yesterday The New York Times printed a beautiful piece regarding the new wave of German Chardonnay by Eric Asimov. The article was largely (though not totally) based on a dinner organized by the collector (and friend) Robert Dentice. The event included over twenty... View Post
26
Feb
Rosé has interestingly become some sort of strange, commercial non-entity. These days, rosé offers come and we all look the other way. Welcome to the flip-side of the rosé-mania that consumed us over the past decade? That sad, regardless of... View Post
11
Feb
“Peter’s wines touch my heart.” – Klaus Peter Keller The full quote is probably worth including, because it’s so deeply heartfelt. I read it and the emotion feels nearly palpable: “For me, Peter Leipold is on the way to becoming... View Post
13
Jan
With Rieslingfeier less than a week away (and the main tasting and gala events totally sold out), we figured we’d send out a quick summary regarding all the Rieslingfeier-adjacent events with our growers in New York City this week and... View Post
06
Jan
Note to reader: Not that we have ever been shy with word-counts, but with the new year we are going to resist every impulse to dumb things down, to economize, to summarize, to make things slick or easy. The world... View Post
06
Jan
Both Lauer and Schönleber will be coming to Rieslingfeier, January 18th in New York! While the Gala Dinner is sold out, there are some tickets available to the Grand Tasting; for only $75 you can taste roughly 60 wines from... View Post
22
Nov
Making sense of the wines of Markus Sonntag, giving them their proper context, is no easy task. Markus is not really a winemaker, at least in any traditional way. He has, as it turns out, a day job in Vienna... View Post
23
Oct
For well over five years now, vom Boden has been offering an unparalleled deep-dive into one of the most magical and curious facets of German wine culture: the German wine auctions. The 2024 German wine auctions will unfurl, back-to-back,... View Post