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

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

German and Israeli Wineries Join Forces

ByKathleen Willcox October 29, 2021February 17, 2024

The Jewish State was proclaimed in 1948; the Federal Republic of Germany founded a year later. There was a pregnant pause when many wondered if…

Thomas Niedermayr from Hof Gandberg behind a cluster of ripe piwi grapes.

Germany · Alto Adige · Climate Crisis · Tasting Article

PIWI’s Big Wine Adventure

ByChristoph Raffelt October 29, 2021February 11, 2024

Trink Magazine | Are PIWIs or grape hybrids our viticultural future as the climate crisis makes winegrowing more, not less, challenging? By Christoph Raffelt

Handwritten notes in a ring notebook with red cover

Germany · Literary

A Remembrance of German Wines Past

ByNeal Hulkower September 17, 2021November 12, 2023

My twenty-something self left two gifts for the older man I would become: a doctorate in applied mathematics and four small, looseleaf notebooks. The degree…

Germany · Mosel

The Auslese Alchemist

ByTorsten Schmidt September 17, 2021October 17, 2023

People imagined him to be an alchemist. Granted, it wasn’t gold his slender hands were currently molding, rather a gleaming tinted zinc capsule, encompassing perfect…

Germany · Literary · Mosel

Die Rebe ist ein Sonnenkind

ByAmanda Smeltz September 17, 2021August 1, 2023

for S.B. with love Die Rebe ist ein Sonnenkind. Sie liebt den Berg und haβt den Wind.So open your door already—for god’s sake, just let…

Germany

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

German and Israeli Wineries Join Forces

PIWI’s Big Wine Adventure

A Remembrance of German Wines Past

The Auslese Alchemist

Die Rebe ist ein Sonnenkind

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