Nothing I’d experienced before was quite like my first couple of Hauenstein brainstorming sessions with Alexander van Dülmen at his townhouse in Berlin. Everything he said more or less precisely hit a ...

WARNING: BELOW IS THE TERRIFYING IMAGE THAT DROVE ME TO WRITE THE BERLIN THRILLER HAUENTSTEIN. DO NOT SCROLL DOWN IF YOU WISH TO AVOID SEEING IT! Every story has a backstory. Therefore, where a story ...

As I stepped into the elevator and I was surprised when somebody I didn’t know asked me who Hauenstein is. „Tony Hauenstein is very old, but he looks like he’s 45. He lives in Berlin where he’s hiding ...

Today is my 61st birthday and anniversaries are useful moments to look back. Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about the 1921 vintage for German wines, which is celebrating its centenary. It was not ...

In exactly one month it will be the 45 th anniversary of the so-called Judgment of Paris tasting at which a French jury placed red and white wines from Napa Valley/California first ahead of the most ...

Für den deutschsprachigen Text bitte nach unten scrollen! I went to Gut Hermannsberg (GHB), the ex-State Domain of the Nahe region of Germany, from JamesSuckling.com in March 2019 to be Riesling ...

I don’t expect anyone will find it hard to believe that Berlin, where I lived from the end of 1993 until the end of 2012, currently feels very spooky. In virtually empty side streets and parks where ...

being here for the first time in a couple of years has made me do a lot of thinking. So far Vienna has weathered the Covid-19 storm better than most big Western cities I’ve either seen or read ...

Farewells always ripped me up, but sickness not inner struggles is the only reason that this photographic record of the farewell for Roy Metzdorf (pictured above) of the Weinstein wine bar in the ...

Although it feels strange to be posting this from Bordeaux this is perhaps not so inappropriate, since Marine Le Pen of the Front National is a candidate in the French Presidential election later this ...