This is Gaby Gianini the owner of Castello di Morcote, and although those names will be unknown to most readers I am convinced that this place is one of the world’s great Cru for red wines from the ...

There were a number of requests for me to publish the text of my speech at Weingut Flick in Wicker/Rheingau on the occasion of the unveiling of the restored Königin-Victoriaberg monument by Jill ...

That Kallstadt remains unknown to everyone except some wine geeks is a little bit bizarre when you consider that the parents of Donald Trump’s – yes, I’m talking about The Donald – come from this ...

I got some flak for writing the words Bullshit Chardonnay in my recent book ‘Best White Wine on Earth – The Riesling Story’ (Stewart, Tabori & Chang). Some people, including those of high intelligence ...

Kent Callaghan isn’t claiming to be the founder of the Arizona wine industry, but it strikes me that he’s the person with the longest experience of wine growing in the state, having founded his 25 ...

On the 3rd of October 2008 I began a major and distinctly crazy project which reaches its fruition in Berlin on the 5th September this year at the Museum for Film & Television in the Postdamer Straße ...

TWO WEEKS SHOOTING THE SECOND SERIES OF WEINWUNDER DEUTSCHLAND force me to take a pause. In Mid-October Episode 5 of The [yellow tail] Saga will follow!

‘New York Yankees’ Dry Riesling from Anthony Road in the FLX for $24.99 Of course, as no-sports Englishman (currently) in New York I am not able to fathom all the intricacies of baseball, but then I ...

What is a close up of a cauliflower doing at the top of this posting? Well, today we’re heading back into the Feiring Line, because in her book ‚Naked Wine’ (Da Capo Press, Cambridge/MA, 2012) Alice ...

„Weißes Rauschen“ is German for white noise; the screen is blank but still pumps out raw, undifferentiated sound and vision. „Die Toten Hosen“ (literally The Dead Trousers, more eliptically Nothing ...

I just attended the wonderful and stimulating FLXcursion global Riesling conference in the Finger Lakes (FLX) region of Upstate New York where I also presented a seminar on Tuesday, 23rd July. I got a ...

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 ...