In eager anticipation of our upcoming Burgundy trip, I couldn’t wait and decided to “warm up” by opening a bottle of Chardonnay from my cellar. I picked a rather down-to-earth representation, the 2020 Bourgogne Blanc by Maison Louis Latour, one of the bigger players in the region. The vintage 2020 closed [...] Continue reading →

I had bought two bottles of this Coto de Imaz Reserva at an auction. Before opening this first bottle, I was a bit cautious and didn’t really know what to expect from the wine. It is not very highly rated on CellarTracker and the last tasting notes date back several years. But the fully [...] Continue reading →

My wife and I will travel to Burgundy in early October. We will stay in a flat near the town of Beaune in the heart of the Côte d’Or, making it a perfect starting ground from which to explore the Burgundy wine region. I will post updates from that trip as [...] Continue reading →

EN: Today I am tasting a white wine cuvée from a winery I had not heard of before: the 2020 Chardonnay & Weißer Burgunder “vom Kalkstein” from the Karl-Hermann Milch winery in Monsheim, Rheinhessen. The Milch winery is thus not far from the probably more prominent town of Flörsheim-Dalsheim, where the Klaus Peter Keller [...] Continue reading →

EN: From the winery with monastery cellars Muri-Gries in South Tyrol (Alto Adige) I have this Lagrein in my glass today, which we ordered at Da Luca. The winery cultivates over 35 hectares of its own vineyards. Among them is Lagrein, an autochthonous variety that has its roots in Bolzano. That [...] Continue reading →

Yesterday, my wife and I celebrated our wedding anniversary at Das Goldstein by Gollner’s near Wiesbaden. They happen to have a stellar wine cellar with a correspondingly good wine menu from which we picked this sweet Riesling Auslese to go along with our dinner. EN: Weingut Künstler is a long-standing winery [...] Continue reading →

EN: The vintage 1978 was not ideal in Bordeaux. First a cool start, but then a warm summer. The quality of the wines is mixed, not everything will have lasted until today. So I had no particular expectation of the 1978 Château Siran, but great interest and looked forward to opening it. First, the [...] Continue reading →