Category Archives: I Am Wine
Wine of the Month November 2010
2009 Riesling trocken Weingut Christian Klein € 7,50 This dry Riesling is super-juicy, but effusive fruit aromas of this kind, traditionaly regarded as one of the remarkable aspects of German white wines, are currently mega-out in the German wine scene. … Continue reading
My Wine Telegram 114
An enormous thank you to all members of the WEINWUNDER DEUTSCHLAND Team for your untiring efforts, your perfectionism and for your patience with me ! From left to right: Sound: Peter Wuchterl, Camera Assistant: Florian Bschorr, Cameraman: Sorin Dragoi, Director: Alexander Saran I … Continue reading
My Wine Telegram 113
Just a few quick lines before I leave for the final shooting of the TV series WEINWUNDER DEUTSCHLAND, or Wine Wonder Germany +++Thank God I feel somewhat better today, because health-wise the last two weeks were really hard +++ By … Continue reading
My Wine Telegram 112
Some of you are no doubt wondering if I’m taking this funky new website seriously, or if the paucity of new texts is the result of an intensification of my anti-blogging instinct: NO TWITTER, NO FACEBOOK, NO BULLSHIT ! +++ … Continue reading
Wine of the Month: October 2010
2009 Riesling „Weißes Rauschen“ Weingut Tesch für Die Toten Hosen € 66,- for 6 bottles (incl. shipping and handling) „Weißes Rauschen“ is German for white noise; the screen is blank but still pumps out raw, undifferentiated sound and vision. „Die … Continue reading
My Wine Telegram 111
Even if some people dislike or even reject my wine, my experiment is a success +++ Two weeks after the presentation of the first wine I made myself there are enough reactions to draw some initial conclusions +++ Many of … Continue reading
Wine of the Month / September 2010
2009 Riesling „Scivaro“ € 8,- ab Hof The Germans have long had a tendency towards absolutism and the nation’s wine freaks are becoming fixated upon the „Großes Gewächs“ wines, the new luxury category of dry German wines from the members … Continue reading
Großes Gewächs: Too Minerally?
nach 17 Drehtage in Folge für die Bayerische Rundfunk TV-Serie WEINWUNDER DEUTSCHALND trudelte ich am Montag wie ein abkratzender Flieger bei der VDP „Großes Gewächs“ (GG) Präsentation in Berlin ein +++ eine Riesen-Terroir-Story wird um diese Weinen gesponnen, von der … Continue reading
Wine of the Month
2009 Rheingau Riesling trocken € 8,- von Weingut Eva Fricke A lot of thin, acidic wine is sold under the name of the famous Rheingau region. At her mini wine estate Eva Fricke makes wines worthy of the region’s great … Continue reading
The Story of the Pigott Wine: Die Geschichte des „Pigott-Weins“
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 2 / 10785 … Continue reading