What You’re Still Getting Wrong About Trollinger

Trollinger was long decried as a poor excuse of a wine. Increasingly, growers and drinkers beg to differ.
Trollinger was long decried as a poor excuse of a wine. Increasingly, growers and drinkers beg to differ.
Rainer Schäfer writes about what he values most: wine, food, and soccer. The first wine that impressed him as a teenager was a Silvaner from Endingen, grown in the vineyard of his Kaiserstühl relatives. He's lived in Hamburg for 30 years and travels the wine regions of the world, always curious about dazzling personalities, surprising experiences, and unknown pleasures.
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