Paula Redes Sidore

The Secrets of Great Sekt

ByPaula Redes Sidore October 21, 2024October 21, 2024

Gerhild Burkhard, founder of the International Sparkling Festival, reveals everything you’ve always wanted to know about sekt (*but were afraid to ask).

Caroline and Sylvain Diel lean into each other holding two wine glasses in the garden of their Nahe winegrowing estate

Germany · Nahe

A Sweetheart Diel That’s Better Than Chocolate

ByPaula Redes Sidore February 14, 2024May 2, 2024

For Valentine’s Day, how a chocolate and wine pairing made for a meet-cute that is now writing a new wine narrative in the Nahe.

Pouring Austrian fine wine into three glasses

Austria · Essay

What’s the Point of Fine Wine, Afterall?

ByPaula Redes Sidore January 23, 2024January 31, 2024

Channeling literary theory in order to propose a new threshold test for fine wine.

Black and white drawing of a small boy holding a red balloon on an empty Paris street

Austria · Carnuntum · Portrait

Fresh, Frank and Fiercely Carnuntum

ByPaula Redes Sidore February 15, 2023November 11, 2023

Trink Magazine | Austria’s winegrowing region of Carnuntum has seemingly been there from the beginning with an identity forever in flux. Paula Redes Sidore explores how growers are redefining what regionality means, together.

Bottle of Furztrocken Riesling wine from German estate Achim Reis in the Mosel

Germany · Essay · Mosel · Tasting Article

What’s German for Drier Than Dry? Furztrocken, of course

ByPaula Redes Sidore November 16, 2022November 14, 2023

The dark wit of Berlin. Dangerously low water levels in the Rhine River. Black bread. Germany does trocken like few others. And then there’s the wine. Despite…

Pergola trained weißburgunder vines in the Vorberg vineyard

Alto Adige · Tasting Article

4 Faces of Alto Adige’s Iconic Vorberg

ByPaula Redes Sidore May 11, 2022February 21, 2024

Trink Magazine | A highflying adventure in 4 vintages of Cantina Terlano’s reknowned Vorberg wine. By Paula Redes Sidore

Photograph of Mettigel, raw art, a German party classic with onion spikes on a bed of lettuce.

Germany · Eat+TRINK

Germany’s Raw Art: the Mettigel

ByPaula Redes Sidore May 11, 2022February 21, 2024

Raw pork is the umlaut answer to the American molded potato salad or ham-and-bananas hollandaise.

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…

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 · 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 · Literary

Letter to My Younger Somm Self

ByPaula Redes Sidore September 17, 2021April 12, 2024

Don’t let anyone tell you those rocks are a waste of time. Twenty-five years from now, sitting in a Koblenz classroom on your first day…

Switzerland

Swiss Wine Trends

ByPaula Redes Sidore May 19, 2021February 27, 2024

It would be easy to dismiss what happens in the tiny winegrowing country of Switzerland as an inconsequential alpine eddy, an iridescent surge in the…