Nahe – a region where the wines tend to be a bit more restrained and higher in acid as opposed to overtly ripe and sweet. This wine is explosive. It’s packed full of exotic tropical fruit like papaya and banana. Its touch of sweetness cloaks a powerful streak of acidity that works almost like a [...read more]

St. Urbans-Hof’s Ockfener Bockstein Auslese is the product of ancient vines in one of the most prestigious vineyards in one of the most iconic regions in all of wine world. What does that translate into? Dang good! This creamy, mandarin orange and apple laced mother-of-a-wine packs a whopping 80 grams of residual sugar, but you [...read more]

Germany: Unraveling the Code Germany produces some of the most underappreciated and misunderstood wines in the world. Are they dry or sweet? Sparkling or still? And what’s with those labels and all the huge words and weird codes? This complexity belies an even deeper complexity in the wines themselves which, glass for glass, makes them [...read more]