Fantastic tasting and inspiring talks with Lucie Peyreyre de Nonancourt and Edouard Cossy of Laurent Perrier in Wiesbaden yesterday. The Champagne House presented their Grand Siecle Iterations No. 25 in the standard bottle, No. 23 in the magnum. We also tasted Alexandra 2004 and some other exciting stuff. The Iterations have each…
First-class Blaufränkisch/Lemberger pairing in our "Wine speaks German tasting" at the University of Geisenheim: The Blaufränkisch Mariental 2010 made by Ernst Triebaumer from Rust and the Fellbacher Lämmler 2013 made by Rainer Schnaitmann from Fellbach. Both wines represent a part of my wine homelands - Burgenland, where my grandmother was born, and…
I am preparing for a masterclass next week. One of the most exciting wines is the Gloria 2013 from the South Tyrolean Nusserhof. For me, this Lagrein shows how individual this autochthonous grape variety of Alto Adige can turn out to be. Elda and Heinrich Mayr's estate, which covers only 2.4 ha,…
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