Category Archives: I Am Wine
Wine of the Month July 2011
2010 Schloss Schwabsburg Riesling trocken *** Weingut Georg Gustav Huff € 9,- Nierstein on the left bank of the Rhine just south of Mainz has been famous for its elegant Rieslings for more than a century. However, during recent decades … Continue reading
My Wine Telegram 128 – finally, the Long Night of German Wine in NYC
“So you found a home in New York,” Paul Grieco said to me as I sat in a corner of Restaurant Hearth (www.restauranthearth.com) with a glass of Mosel Riesling from Weiser-Künstler lost in thought +++ I was thinking back 24 … Continue reading
Wine of the Month June 2011
2010 Kestener Riesling trocken Weingut Klaus Meierer € 3,90 Sometimes I get a lot of flack for insisting its possible to find wines for under 5 Euros a bottle which taste really good. Here is further proof that this idea … Continue reading
My Wine Telegram 127
If you think that I’m sometimes crazy then look at winemaker Randall Grahm of Bonny Doon winery of Santa Cruz in California (above) with whom I recently spent a fascinating afternoon in the Waterbar/San Francisco talking about whether terroir and … Continue reading
My Wine Telegram 126 with an urgent question to Renate Kunast
a whole week later I’m still trying to recover from the bolt of lightning which hit me as I walked down Fifth Avenue in Manhattan +++ an SMS from Uerzig in the Mosel told me that the Green Party of … Continue reading
Wine of the Month May 2011
2009 Rivaner trocken Weingut Sinß € 5,20 So in the launch month of WEINHIER, my wine of the month is a humble Müller–Thurgau (the old name for Rivaner)?! Have I completely lost my mind? Am I overworked or am I … Continue reading
My Wine Telegram 125
Upon returning to Berlin from many long and intense days of tasting the 2010 vintage German wines and I felt seriously confused +++ although there are plenty of good 2010s and some great wines, just what are the “typical” characteristics … Continue reading
Wine of the Month April 2011
2009 Riesling trocken Weingut Deutzerhof € 8,- Of course, regardless of whether they’re claiming that it’s the vintage from hell or yet another miracle German vintage the entire wine scene here is currently obsessed with the 2010 vintage, because a … Continue reading
Wine of the Month March 2011
2009 „Deep Blue“ (A.P. Nr. 01 11) Weingut Tesch € 9,- Much of what we think of as taste impressions, also those of wine, are actually things we smell or feel the texture of in our mouths. In the brain … Continue reading
Wine of the Month, February 2011
2009 BREVA Riesling „Edition No.4“ BREVA e.V. € 13,80 Why is this wine of the month so expensive ? But wait a moment, isn’t the right question why is it so cheap ? What do the best dry white wines … Continue reading