Reading time: 7 minutes

A progressive attitude to wines with altitude marks this import model.

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Growers chisel a fresh profile for a long-lamented region

Vol 15 Germany Rheinhessen
Reading time: 10 minutes

Welcome to your intervention

Vol 15 Austria Carnuntum

Redefining regionality

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Down the rabbit hole of an aged Austrian white

Vol 15 Austria Thermenregion
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A case study for exploring Austria’s origins

Reading time: 7 minutes

A rare Swiss grape proves perfect for our time and tastes

Vol 15 Italy Südtirol-Alto Adige
Reading time: 7 minutes

Diversity drives complexity in the Italian Alps

Reading time: 7 minutes

What's ahead for German-speaking wines?

Vol 15 Germany Saale-Unstrut
Reading time: 13 minutes

Germany's Saale-Unstrut pushes the envelope of northern viability

Vol 15 Italy Südtirol-Alto Adige

Tradition, memory, and longing at the Lunar New Year

Reading time: 5 minutes

What to give the Wein lover in your life — or yourself!

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Has the world’s most iconic grape found a new cool climate home?

 

How climate change is pushing Austria's top winegrowing region to react. And fast.

On compound words and not-sweet wine

Reading time: 16 minutes

David Schildknecht brings our Prädikat series to its sweet finale

A Markgräflerland estate stakes a claim

Reading time: 7 minutes

Serious Sauvignon Blanc finds a home

Vol 14 Italy Südtirol-Alto Adige

An unexpected combination taps origins and memory

Vol 14 Italy Südtirol-Alto Adige
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Slow down on an Alpine wine trail

Vol 14 Austria Burgenland
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Paradiser lost and found with a side of Seewinkel Chardonnay

Vol 14 Austria Burgenland
Reading time: 8 minutes

History repeats itself     

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An unexpected affineur in Swiss vineyards

 

Vol 14 Italy Südtirol-Alto Adige

Mining liquid gold at Cantina Tramin

 

A deep-dive into terroir, tradition, and change with Schloss Gobelsburg’s Maestro

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Vol 12 Rheinhessen
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Rheinhessen’s viticultural journey

 

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German and Austrian growers go their own way with retro "rosé"

Now is the time to be in the know

Rare wines draw pleasure-seekers to Landhotel Hirschen

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Exploring wine's effects beyond the glass

Reading time: 6 minutes

Navigating new rules

A deep-dive with Schloss Gobelsburg’s maestro

Vol 12 Italy Südtirol-Alto Adige
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Of earth and air, of cheese and wine, of Nussbaumer and Larix

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Serious, artisanal, creative – and umlauted

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Vol 11 Burgenland Württemberg
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Seeking the illusive identity of this trending red grape

Forgotten tastes rediscovered

Can you hear the music?

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German Wines Get a Showcase in the Dutch Capital

Reading time: 7 minutes

Welcome to the Mett-a-verse

Pedicures, Camping Vans, and Tested Expertise

Vol 11 Austria Traisental
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The Down-to-Earth DAC for Ethereal Wines

Vol 11 Italy Südtirol-Alto Adige

A vertical adventure

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A First-Hand Account Brings the Golden Age of Mosel Riesling to Life

 

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Patrons Vol 10 Germany

When it comes to Riesling, it pays to mind the gap

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Probing the identity of German wine’s “middle child”

A sparkling star hides in plain sight

Heritage as the “Why” for a Life in Wine

What happens if nature is allowed to be the ultimate engineer?

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In the Swiss Alps, Vineyard Help Has Horns

 

Liora Levi explains the astronomical success of German wines in Norway

Vol 10 Italy Südtirol-Alto Adige

South Tyrol’s “Other” Pinot Sets Tonkatsu Alight

Contact info, media kit, and more!

The final issue of MMXXI

Vol 09 Austria Steiermark
Reading time: 9 minutes

An Austrian hunt for porcine terroir

Beats, weed, threads, eats — and German Riesling

“Frentsch” as Role Model (and as Role-Play)

 

Personal Essay Vol 09 Austria Germany

How umlaut wines once again save the day.

Tafelspitz and Gemischter Satz make a mouthful

Reading time: 7 minutes

Bringing Icelandic individualism to Swiss wine

Why Riesling is "finnishing" first in the Nordics

 

Reading time: 7 minutes

A former stonemason rebuilds the Aargau's wine reputation

Vol 09 Austria Steiermark

Winemaking meets culinary hospitality in the Steiermark

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The Anniversary Edition

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Is Austria’s wine culture at its most authentic when watered down?

Thoughts on sausage salad — and wine

Vol 08 Südtirol-Alto Adige Germany
Reading time: 12 minutes

Because not all grapes are created equal, hybrids are ripe for their day in the sun.

Healing wounds one wine at a time

Vol 08 Italy Südtirol-Alto Adige

Thinking outside the box about vineyard labor

Reading time: 4 minutes

How Junge Schweiz Neue Winzer is changing the landscape

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Two sisters tell Dad to back off

Creative Writing Vol 07
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A few words on this special literary edition

Personal Essay Vol 07 Germany Mosel

It wasn't the sulfites after all...

Fiction Vol 07 Italy
Reading time: 8 minutes

On basketball, love, and the wine that wasn't

Fiction Vol 07 Germany
Reading time: 10 minutes

The dark underbelly of liquid gold

Personal Essay Vol 07 Germany
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Stop focusing on the wine

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Nothing to fear from wild slopes

Personal Essay Vol 07 Austria
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The impossibility of trusting a wine brand from afar

Personal Essay Vol 07 Austria
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A Viennese wine that answers questions set almost by chance

 

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A Mosel master renders wine into words

Personal Essay Vol 07 Germany Nahe
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A mother's moment of grace in the Nahe

Personal Essay Vol 07 Germany
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Coming of age when Spätlesen sold for a song

Personal Essay Vol 07 Germany Rheinhessen
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The fifth Baldwin brother remembered

Taking stock of unfathomable losses

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What biodynamics means to a Black wine professional

Reading time: 10 minutes

Germany and Austria are in serious danger of drying out

A case for the future of vinous levity

Reading time: 2 minutes

Kabinett trocken: a German love story

"Spargel" and Silvaner Kabinett 

Pfyn is home to 80 wineries you can hike to

Reading time: 4 minutes

Artisanal critter wine at Pranzegg

Reading time: 9 minutes

The taste, and sound, of Austria’s vineyards

Umlaut picks from Orange Glou’s Doreen Winkler

Reading time: 7 minutes

Flagship, albatross, or future?

Reading time: 7 minutes

Blending years for a fresh perspective 

Reading time: 5 minutes

Lessons learned during a pandemic

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A Viennese musical journey

When one German pyramid simply isn't enough...

Reading time: 7 minutes

Who's who in the "New Wü"?

 

Reading time: 5 minutes

What does one drink, when one doesn't drink?

Reading time: 7 minutes

From Turin to Ürzig, the truth of vermouth and the herbs between.

Reading time: 10 minutes

A legend in Austrian and German wine imports reflects

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And why they matter

A little-known red wine region comes into its own

Reading time: 7 minutes

Leading the natural wine revolution in Switzerland's north

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Texas Hold 'em, Marlboros, and Swiss wine

Why Switzerland's varieties matter in the wider world

Reading time: 6 minutes

A glorious and singular pleasure in Valais

Reading time: 6 minutes

Martin Donatsch reveals why Swiss wines remain an insider secret

 

Reading time: 7 minutes

How central Europe's pink delight once captured pens and palates.

Reading time: 9 minutes

Germany's role in fueling new thinking on farming

Vol 04 Germany Rheinhessen Pfalz Franken
Reading time: 8 minutes

Rheinhessen's dry revolution gives Scheurebe a new taste.

Reading time: 6 minutes

Old vines meet fresh talent in eastern Germany

Reading time: 12 minutes

The tantalizing talents of Pinot Blanc

Five growers' efforts to find out

"Volcanic Styria" redefines the way we think of Austrian wine

Embracing the unexpected in Westphalian cheese and Württemberg Zweigelt

Reading time: 7 minutes

The amazing origin story of Switzerland's absinthe.

Reading time: 7 minutes

Beauty and future in South Tyrol's "wines from the lake."

Moritz Nikolaus Lüke on the joys and challenges of becoming an MW

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In-depth with the winemakers of Weingut Abraham.

 

Vol 03 Germany Rheinhessen Pfalz Mosel

Late release wines and manipulating time to reveal intention.

Working hand in hand is in the region's DNA

Reading time: 7 minutes

A quest for the true lineage of Austria's St. Laurent.

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Where does a viticulture trademarked on freshness go when the mercury rises? 

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And why we should care

And the 50 growers focused on its identity.

Vol 03 Germany Rheinhessen

This "cure" for salmon requires a side of Silvaner

Get in on these insider picks

A recent quality jump makes this a happy hunting ground

Wine as a product of nature and culture, intricately defined

Biodynamics as a path to individuality and greater terroir expression

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Life in the bubble.

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Germany’s signature sparkling wine finds a new identity.

Exploring what happens when connection outweighs targets in the importer-producer relationship

Reading time: 6 minutes

Sektlaune: an exuberant love, an idiosyncratic, inherently German emotional condition condensed into a single word.

 

A glimpse into Austria’s sparkling scene, from Winzersekt to pét-nat

How a chance call and a promise to set the bar high launched Germany's newest next-level Sekt project.

From Europe’s highest vineyard to natural wines in a microcosm of South Tyrol

A renaissance on two fronts

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A hidden treasure brings detail into focus within Switzerland's largest wine growing region

Focus brings "Freyheit"

The rare native grape that may be future proof

Two brothers redefine familiar varieties for their generation

Cocktail ideas to send you climbing a tree into your own childhood.

The hidden world of compounds and precursors behind the spice of "umlaut wines"

Punishing vineyards, abandoned cellars — and the young vintners who can’t resist them

 

What if being on the fringe turns out to be central to the appeal of German wine in our times?

Vol 01 Germany Rheinhessen Pfalz Ahr

The coming-of-age story of how a white wine has managed to capture the soul of Germany's leading red diva, Pinot Noir.

After years in the background, Steinmetz is ready to be seen

How a modest couple became the emblem of Swiss wines par excellence

Müller-Thurgau has always been there for Germany. Why hasn’t Germany always been there for it?

Vol 01 Germany Rheinhessen Pfalz Franken
Reading time: 8 minutes

Ardent authenticity has transformed Silvaner from draft horse to darling among Germany's young winemakers.

Reading time: 6 minutes

It is ancient. It is extra. And love it or hate it, Gewurz is here to stay. (Just give us back the umlaut, please!).

Reading time: 2 minutes

North Sea waters and central Germany bring forth an uncharted combination

From "Korea" to South Styria, a trio of standouts in Austria's extraordinary landscape of natural wines.

This is our chance to say thank you to the amazing talents that helped bring TRINK to life.

The most exciting thing ever to happen to German wines might be that collector Robert Dentice fell in love with them. 

Vol 01 Germany Rheinhessen
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P.J. Valckenberg and the next chapter of German wine