A group of young, talented winemakers are on a mission to change the perception of wines from the Rheinhessen; a look at one of those winemakers reveals just how dramatic – and successful – that change might be… The first thing one notices about Alexander Gysler… is that he’s tall. Even for Germans this guy…
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Postcard from Germany: A House Divided
High-end Mosel wine producers are (slowly) battling for the identity – and the future – of German Riesling. “We don’t aim to produce perfection,” Annegret Reh-Gartner told me over lunch at Schloss Marienlay, a beautiful estate on the Ruwer in Germany’s famed Mosel region. Annegret is the driving force behind Reichsgraf von Kesselstatt, a Mosel…
Of Millennial Mistakes and Wine Blogging Blunders
The latest issue of Wine Enthusiast has some advice for wineries and wine wine marketers on how to handle the next generation of wine consumers – and it’s probably wrong. Well, it’s at least incomplete. In the May 2009 issue of Wine Enthusiast, which I received as a sample from the recent TasteCamp East in…
Notorious (Robert Parker is Chasing Shadows)
“Lay your seedy judgments, who says they’re part of our lives? I heard your promise but I don’t believe it – That’s why I’ll do it again” – Notorious, Duran Duran Robert Parker can’t leave well enough alone these days, at least when it comes to bloggers. Which is a shame really, because ultimately, in…