The "excellent" group consists of wines that are truly memorable, wines that inspire me to seek out and buy these and wines like them. The "excellent" and "very good" groups are wines that I would happily buy at the given price. Within each group, I will list the wines in the approximate order of enjoyment. Yes, I do. MORE >>

The party was fabulous -- many couples and groups having fun, lots of people socializing and getting to know their new best friend over Gruner Veltliner. As usual, though, I was in full wine geek mode, enjoying the opportunity to hop from table to table, comparing Rieslings and talking to winemakers. Blaufränkisch anyone? MORE >>

particularly love doing this over a meal with a relaxed group of people who will participate in the conversation and laugh with one another as we swing from kind-of-accurate to wildly wrong in our attempts to identify wine. Everyone agreed that it was lovely wine, the 2001 Prager Riesling Achleiten. I love blind tasting. MORE >>

During our conversation on this night I learned a lot about Austrian Riesling and changes in the Austrian wine industry in the 1980's. was thinking of Champagne, or maybe a Huet demi-sec, but I remembered the 1999 Hirtzberger Riesling Smaragd Singerriedel that I bought about a year ago, on Peter's advice actually. Modern?!? MORE >>

Having banded together for the last eleven years (making some wine together in the form of a cooperative and also as a marketing and promotional tool) this group calling itself the Sudpfalz Connection is very exciting and energized. Volker Gies. The members of the "Sudpfalz Connexion" are: - Sven Leiner, Weingut Leiner. MORE >>