Old and new Mosel, one for both – Part II: A handicraft

GERMANY (Traben-Trarbach) - Are you up for a Schimbock wine? Hopefully, because Schimbock means pure flavors of slate. Produced by a gifted winemaker. And of course, it comes from the Mosel River, from where else? I could...

FRANCE (Maury) - Sweet redwine, redwine as sweet wine. Southern France has a wonderful tradition related to that and we would like to take a close look at it. Sweet redwine is considered "eww" in Germany. Basically, if...

FRANCE (Maury) - (Continued...:) Besides the appellation Banyuls, the close-by Maury is another well-recognized appellation for top sweet red wines. It is here that, on 1,700 hectares, fortified wine is produced in all...

GERMANY (Berlin) - Captains Maat Felix Eschenauer is on the hunt for genuine German classics. Today he is climbing a mountain in the Rhinegau, which belongs to a winemaker who stands for German wine, like no other.

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(continued) - It has only been a couple of years now that Robert Weil also includes the sites Klosterberg and Turmberg on the light-blue labels. We are actually wittnesses of history's first happening in German wine,...

GERMANY (Berlin) - The second glass was filled with a noticeably brighter, cherry-red wine that also smells a little like Christmas. Cloves, but not like in mulled wine that makes some wines undrinkable. Clove and black...

GERMANY (Berlin) - Captains mate Felix Eschauer was a guest at a blind tasting, which should make him fail. But in spite of wine, man and singing, he instantly recognized the variety which is very rare in Germany. And...

The captain has grabbed a 2007, and emptied it at the end of yesterday. And left something in the bottle. Yesterday was a difficult day, because a Hanseatic wine writer, eaten up with envy, gave the Captain a hard time....

YOOPRESS (Berlin) - When the Austrian wine experienced a boom - and indeed a real boom - there were too few bottles of Austrian wine. The demand was huge; the ability to satisfy this demand was low. In these days of...

GERMANY (Berlin) - The most extreme vineyard of the winemaker is the Offenberg. In the upper part of the vineyard, you can find inclusions of mica and paragneiss. Mainly because of the high percentage of slate, the wines...