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01 Jul

Vollenweider
vineyard tour

For Moritz and Vinzent's first vintages working together as a team (2024 and 2025), they have changed the internal organization, the hierarchy of their bottlings, at least for the dry Rieslings. Let's explore.

10 Jun

Vollenweider: raw, angular, salty
estate profile

This is what I dream about when I dream about the Mosel. These are wines of consequence. At the moment, I don’t know if there is a more exciting, more dynamic, more brutally honest Mosel estate. I’m not saying these wines are easy – in fact exactly the opposite.

23 Apr

Leipold
vineyard tour

There is a clarity to Leipold’s wines, a very specific type of brilliance that makes the wines feel essential, honest, buoyant – like the sun shining in a winter sky and the warm sunlight falling upon your skin.

06 Apr

Kissinger-Bähr: act different
estate profile

Yes, the Rheinhessen is going through a renaissance, and Moritz and Jasmin Kissinger-Bähr are in the very heart of it all. I’ve had this thought on multiple occasions tasting these wines: “How did no one make wines like this before?”

13 Mar

Lauer
vineyard tour

For purists, there is nothing like the Saar. It is arguably one of the greatest, most unique wine-growing regions on earth. The core of greatness in the Saar is intensity without weight, grandiosity without size.

13 Mar

Kissinger-Bähr
vineyard tour

Many of the Kissinger-Bähr vineyards are located in Uelversheim, a village located in the eastern part of central Rheinhessen. Mostly, you would probably define this place by where it is not.

24 Oct

Stein
vineyard tour

Join us in a tour of the curious villages of St. Aldegund, Alf and beyond.