Recent content by John Ritchie

So that's why none of you guys bought any last year!

My Favorite kind of Fèvre. But only when I'm at the club and it's otherwise difficult to see the bottle in the low light. I also like to see myself as a "connected consumer" so I'm glad to have a beverage tailored to my needs.

I have an obvious bias since I found them and wrote the sordid tale that Oswaldo linked to so I apologize for the spam, but I've had more good experiences with the wines than poor. Certainly there's some bottle variation and I've had both horrendously corked bottles and ones with a persistent...

This is so devastating. I had infinite admiration for Joe.

baby cleo's gotta go to college. kidding.

Barrel X is called "Alt Scheidt" outside of the US. The Mosel Wine Merchant boys thought maybe the original name wouldn't sound so appetizing to the American market. I don't remember the exact numbers of RS but both 2011 Saarfeilser and Kern are Feinherbs and due to the vintage both will have...

headscratchers for sure, but the rieslings delivered. probably just to rub salt in it.

Dr. Carl did pretty well in 2010, I thought.

Levi, speaking of Chinati and great posts on the blog, the burning question becomes: How was your Zabaldano?

But the 2002s are as hard to find as the mythical truly bangin' peking duck

aww, too bad. I was hoping you'd have more

Was that Lauer definitely an '02 or was that again an issue of indecipherable script? An '02 Lauer is really not something you see everyday...

i hope he's affiliated with my favorite clear malt beverage. Blended with '82 Trollat it makes excellent Lambrusco

I'm a big Katharina fan, but this really doesn't tell us very much, especially when she doesn't list the names of her colleagues. Sulfur use varies pretty widely, it seems, from producers as different as Selbach-Oster, Willi Schaefer, The Thanisches, the other assorted Prüms, the Haags, Richter...

They say it's coming