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…
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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…
What They Got Wrong (Seeing Red in Long Island Wine Country)
The best statement about what to do – and what not to do – to make and promote fine wine in Long Island comes from the LI wines themselves – and it’s a different story than the one that its winemakers are telling. Before we get into what’s wrong with the current state of Long…