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Book Review: “Mosel Wine”

ByValerie Kathawala March 30, 2022November 10, 2023

We like to think of Mosel wine as eternally glorious. The river valley’s nearly 2,000-year vinous history, its relics of Roman civilization and tributes to…

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Germany · Mosel

Can Spätlese Be Saved?

ByTerry Theise February 18, 2022February 17, 2024

Not long ago, in my merchant days, I scored a few cases of mature Mosel wines from a grower I didn’t know. It wasn’t much…

Germany

Crémant is Germany’s Best Kept Secret

ByNicole Wolbers February 18, 2022November 14, 2023

German Crémant is one of sparkling wine’s best-kept secrets. The high-quality classification requires strict hand harvesting and whole-bunch pressing to ensure that only the purest…

Woman posed stylishly on velvet chair smoking and drinking a martini. Cello player in background.

Germany · Portrait

Delicious Whites under Northern Lights

ByPaula Redes Sidore February 18, 2022February 8, 2024

Liora Levi, high-profile sommelier, television personality, and president of ASI Norwegian Sommelier Association, came late to wine. In its own odd way, that only bolsters…

Mason Washington sits on a staircase with bottles of Riesling scattered around him.

Germany · Portrait

Mason Washington and the Pull of German Roots

ByValerie Kathawala February 18, 2022March 2, 2025

Mason Washington wants to set himself apart in the wine world. He’s convinced his German identity is the ticket. The 24-year-old digital media marketer grew…

Schlossböckelheimer Kupfergrube vineyard with volcanic melaphry soil in Germany's Nahe winegrowing region.

Germany · Learn · Nahe

Nahe – Welcome to Germany’s Wild West

ByPaula Redes Sidore February 18, 2022February 11, 2024

Some say it lacks the historical cache of the Rheingau, the legendary vineyard names of the Mosel, or the easy charm of neighboring Rheinhessen. There…

Germany

Releasing the Power of Hidden Sweetness

ByDavid Schildknecht February 18, 2022September 12, 2023

“Dry” describes what wine drinkers overwhelmingly profess to desire. And “trocken” can only appear on labels of German Rieslings with less than 10 grams of…

Germany · Austria

The New Teachings of Old Field Blends

ByNils Kevin Puls December 17, 2021February 17, 2024

The year is 1806. The date June 17th. Privy Councilor Goethe sits in Frankfurt — high and dry. He reaches for his quill and writes a…

Germany · Austria · Essay · Literary

What to Drink When a Somm Comes to Dinner

ByChris Losh December 17, 2021September 12, 2023

It is Friday night and I’m terrified. In 24 hours, a top sommelier is coming to our house for dinner. A sommelier who puts together…

Germany · Mosel

Riesling, Weed, and the Creative Cosmos of Skinny Pablo

ByValerie Kathawala December 17, 2021May 2, 2024

On an early autumn night, in a quietly insiderish neighborhood of Queens, New York, deep beats and warping, hypnotic sound penetrate the stillness. Trapezoids of light slant…

Germany · Interview · Mosel

It Takes Two: Heidi Mäkinen and Gernot Kollmann

ByPaula Redes Sidore December 17, 2021September 12, 2023

What do one of the Mosel’s oldest winemaking estates and a country with a fledgling wine-drinking culture have in common? The answer, as with most…

Germany · Eat+TRINK

Eat + TRINK | Wurstsalat as Mood Board

ByEmily Campeau October 29, 2021November 11, 2023

I felt lonely on the Internet the day I started researching the origins of Wurstsalat. I looked in far-flung corners of the web for sausage scholars…

Germany

Book Review: “Mosel Wine”

Can Spätlese Be Saved?

Crémant is Germany’s Best Kept Secret

Delicious Whites under Northern Lights

Mason Washington and the Pull of German Roots

Nahe – Welcome to Germany’s Wild West

Releasing the Power of Hidden Sweetness

The New Teachings of Old Field Blends

What to Drink When a Somm Comes to Dinner

Riesling, Weed, and the Creative Cosmos of Skinny Pablo

It Takes Two: Heidi Mäkinen and Gernot Kollmann

Eat + TRINK | Wurstsalat as Mood Board

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