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Wine Rambler dinner at Trinity restaurant 14 Aug 2013 | 06:07 pm
It was always about food. I am not saying you cannot, should not have wine without food (quite the opposite), but without my love for food there would be no Wine Rambler. The crucial moment was a Frid...
Dönnhoff, Kahlenberg Riesling trocken, 2011 28 Jul 2013 | 01:46 pm
We are back. Well, almost. While I have survived three weeks of scorching heat in North America (a hot and humid torture device otherwise known as summer holiday), my co-Rambler Julian is still out so...
Waitrose responds to open letter about "Legends of Germany" 30 Jun 2013 | 08:28 pm
Earlier this year I published an open letter to Waitrose that within hours became our most widely read, tweeted about and "liked" article of the year. I had criticised Waitrose for stocking a wine tha...
Wyfold Vineyard, Brut, 2009 17 Jun 2013 | 10:23 pm
Rock star, film director or actor - you haven't really made it to the top unless you own a vineyard. If you want to be up there with Aykroyd, Banderas or Coppola making your own wine is now an even be...
Speak, barrel sample - an afternoon with Dallmayr's winemaking elite (Part two) 11 Jun 2013 | 04:49 am
We had heard a shy young Franconian winemaker talking about finding his own way, a sage dispensing Riesling wisdom, and the hulking star of the river Saar warn us of his own wines. But in spite of our...
Weingut Seehof, Morstein, Riesling trocken, Alte Reben, 2009 2 Jun 2013 | 06:02 pm
A while ago a friend introduced the Wine Rambler by saying that "Torsten and Julian write about German wines, mostly sweet ones". Looking back over the last month, last few years in fact, it is easy t...
Weingut Ziereisen, Syrah "Gestad", 2008 25 May 2013 | 04:03 am
Nowadays everyone seems to expect the Spanish Inquisition. Well, maybe not exactly Monty Python's torture team with the comfy chair, but with the internet full of surprising wine finds presenting some...
Speak, barrel sample - an afternoon with Dallmayr's winemaking elite (Part one) 13 May 2013 | 02:21 am
Two years ago, I reminisced about student days and staircases. Last year, I got all corduroy trousers and turtleneck sweater about the term "elite". Somewhat disappointingly, this has not stopped Dall...
Speak, barrel sample - an afternoon with Dallmayr's wine making elite (Part one) 13 May 2013 | 02:21 am
Two years ago, I reminisced about student days and staircases. Last year, I got all corduroy trousers and turtleneck sweater about the term "elite". Somewhat disappointingly, this has not stopped Dall...
Koehler-Ruprecht, Weißer Burgunder, Kabinett trocken, 2011 7 May 2013 | 02:13 am
It does not always have to be Mosel. Nor does it always have to be Riesling. Well, there would be worse things in the world than to be limited to Mosel Riesling, but thankfully no demonic power has so...
