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What is the Role of “Heimat” in Terroir?

ByNils Kevin Puls April 7, 2021November 12, 2023

For over a year, we’ve been living with a pandemic that has shut down more than just our senses of taste and smell. It has…

Germany · Franken · Pfalz · Rheinhessen

Drink More Scheu!

ByChristoph Raffelt April 7, 2021September 10, 2024

If there is an underdog in Germany’s largest winegrowing region, Rheinhessen, it is Scheurebe. Vinified sweet for many years, Scheurebe — pronounced SHOY-ray-beh — largely…

Germany · Portrait · Saale-Unstrut

Konni + Evi: Rewriting Possibility in Saale-Unstrut

ByEva Biringer April 7, 2021November 12, 2023

It’s hard to believe now, but Germany was once a divided country, and the East was a strange microcosm of icons of that era: Sandmännchen, Jungpioniere, and FKK-Kultur….

Scellebelle cheese with rind on wooden cutting board beside bottle of Beurer Zweigelt and red wine glass and notebook

Germany · Eat+TRINK · Württemberg

Scellebelle and Zweigelt

ByUrsula Heinzelmann April 7, 2021November 14, 2023

When Westphalia and Württemberg meet on the table good tastes are bound to happen.

Summer view of inner courtyard with plants and stone buildings in Germany's Pfalz winegrowing region

Germany · Learn · Pfalz

Pfalz comes into its own

ByValerie Kathawala March 24, 2021February 17, 2024

The Pfalz is Germany’s second-largest wine region (by volume) — and perhaps its biggest surprise. The south-of-the-Alps feel of abundance and harmony stems from geographic…

Germany · Interview

Ten Questions for Germany’s Newest Master of Wine

ByValerie Kathawala March 11, 2021September 12, 2023

A fresh crop of Masters of Wine was announced late last month: Ten individuals who have grasped the holy grail of wine education. Among them is Moritz Nikolaus…

Winemaker Christine Pieroth in cellar inspecting a raised glass of red wine in the light

Germany · Nahe · Portrait

Christine Pieroth: The Nahe’s Natural Pioneer

ByStephanie Hanel February 5, 2021February 27, 2024

Piri Naturel is Christine Pieroth’s independent line of natural wines in Germany’s Burg Layen. Her wines bring a breath of fresh air to more straightforward Nahe’s wine scene.

Germany · Mosel · Nahe · Pfalz · Rheinhessen

Time in a Bottle: Good Things Come to Those Who Late

ByPaula Redes Sidore February 5, 2021February 11, 2024

While artists throughout the ages have longed to catch time in a bottle, it is winemakers who have indeed come closest to achieving this noblest of…

Germany · Eat+TRINK · Rheinhessen

Eat & TRINK | Grüner Silvaner and Gravlax

ByJérôme Hainz February 5, 2021October 10, 2024

Curing fish is a bit like baking cakes: unless one follows a particular recipe to the letter, the final result inevitably contains an element or…

Germany · Alto Adige · Austria

How Austrian Biodynamic Growers Put Individuality First, Together

ByValerie Kathawala January 15, 2021February 17, 2024

Why does biodynamics matter? Respekt-BIODYN is the ongoing effort of 25 growers from German-speaking wine regions to answer that question. Though there are many forms…

Germany · Austria

Are the British Getting a Taste for Umlauts?

ByDavid Crossley December 14, 2020February 8, 2024

We British are not the world’s most noted linguists, but that doesn’t seem to put off some of us from drinking “German-speaking” wines. That said,…

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Germany · Alto Adige · Austria · Switzerland

He Who Controls the Spice Controls the Universe

ByCarrie Dykes December 14, 2020February 17, 2024

Picture yourself at a German holiday market (if such things were happening in 2020) — a mug of glühwein in hand and the scent of…

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