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.
Stephanie Hanel, born in Munich, Bavaria, and therefore as a young adult more familiar with beer than wine, became a wine lover with her first contact with natural wine at 2Naturkinder, then dove into the Brooklyn world of natural wines, where winemakers are rock stars, and the variety of wines feels like it could never end. Best memory: summer day with heavy rain, sitting by an open window in a wine bar (only selling Italian natural
wine) and picking some olives and cheese, sipping through one and another glass. Career path: author of multimedia-productions, project manager at a publishing company, content manager of a business network, scientific communicator, composing texts about family-owned German brands and companies, editing and contributing for the website of Naturweinwelt,
and authoring books.
For a Jewish baby boomer like me, the Holocaust was always part of my DNA. Yet, I was not the child of survivors. My Polish grandparents were safely in the United States by the 1920s. The family they left behind were mostly killed. In yeshiva, where I spent a dozen years splitting my curriculum between religious and secular studies, we were frequently subjected to footage of emaciated bodies, piled up for burning or disposal. Teachers didn’t hide the numbers tattooed on their arms. But the personal horror stories my cousins told of Polish concentration camps and ghettos were the images…...
April arrived like a lamb and went out like a lion, leaving a swath of massive frost damage in its wake for the 2024 vintage.
The future of the Mosel Apollo butterfly and its habitat of the Mosel terraces are endangered. Can a solution be found that allows both to continue to coexist?
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 opened many doors and reinforced my ability to do independent research, perform analyses, and document the results. The notebooks, along with labels from many of the bottles, form an archive of my first decade tasting wine. Between 1969 and 1979, a period covering my student and early career years, I kept detailed notes on almost everything I tasted. During most of that time, I lived in Evanston, Illinois. It was dry until 1975, necessitating runs…...
Südtirol-Alto Adige winegrowing has already exerted tremendous energy in re-inventing itself. But as has become ever clearer, that was only step one. The second is yet to come.
March 25, 2024 Update: Eva Fricke and the German Wine Collection no longer together. Apparently, the tango takes even more complex footwork than either party anticipated. And the frisson of friction is real. In wine, the relationship between importer and producer works better when it’s more tango than transaction. First there is the careful footwork of their own internal negotiations, then a set of fancy steps together for the audience. The goal is to position the new producer within an aesthetic and cultural context that would-be consumers will find attractive. It is a delicate dance that requires surprising intimacy and…...
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