Wines & Food we taste · 06. Februar 2020

You'll be in Düsseldorf and looking for places to go... we got 5 recommendations for you...

Wines & Food we taste · 20. November 2019

You don't like sweet Riesling? Read this!

Wines & Food we taste · 14. September 2018

Counted in vine-years, Scheurebe is a baby - just over a hundred years old... exactly 102 years that is. Scheurebe is the result of German viticulturalist Dr. Georg Scheu's work, successfully crossing Riesling and Bukettraube (literally bouquet grape, a lesser known aromatic varietal) in 1916. Scheurebe can have pronounced and layered characteristics, from intense, tropical lychee, grapefruit and passion fruit to black currant bush and mint, lime sorbet and feline essence or boxwood. In some...

Wines & Food we taste · 11. Juni 2018

If you think that wine needs to be celebrated, that it needs to be sniffed, swirled, swooshed, and commented on every time…. Stop reading right now! This post is not for you. If, however, you think wine can be a just-for-fun drink, thirst-quenching and stimulating, uncomplicated and easy-going, just like beer, keep reading....

Wines & Food we taste · 28. Mai 2018

Here’s a wine category one might not relate to German wine: sparkling wine or ‘Sekt’ in German. You haven’t heard of Sekt? That’s easily forgiven since Germany hardly exports its Sekt. For some reason export markets for sparkling wines have been left to Champagne, Cava, and Prosecco. Possibly it’s that we, in Germany, we drink so much of our own stuff that no winemaker would bother exporting it. But, if you are planning a wine tour in Germany, add Sekt right next to German Riesling...

Wines & Food we taste · 28. Februar 2018

Wanna know more about the wines many German somm's quaff when off duty? Here's the answer!

Wines & Food we taste · 12. Februar 2018

If you are preparing your food and wine tour to Germany check out these essentials...

Wines & Food we taste · 09. Februar 2018

Couple of notes on my first icewine:

Wines & Food we taste · 22. Oktober 2017

What makes a good Glühwein? How navigate the the Glühwein-stalls at a German Christmas market... read our guide here....

Wines & Food we taste · 09. Oktober 2017

What is 'Fey-Daar-Wai-Sar' I hear you ask? The German Federweisser is best described as a teenaging wine: It is a cloudy, sometimes fizzy, light, and hard to control young wine - only seasonably available in September and October. Here is all you need to know...