• About this blog

  If, when, why, what

• French-English-German wine dictionary

  In need of the right term(s)

• Bibliography

  Books and magazines about wine that I've read (an ongoing list)

• Last Wednesday at Sylvain’s

  Three very good wines

• Thinking about this year’s harvest

  Projecting what will happen in September

• Wax

  Why do put (natural) winemakers wax on top of the cork?

• Tasting wine: 8-16 July, 2022

  Notes on wines Thomas, me and various friends tasted between 8 and 16 July

• Assemblage: day one

  Assembling the wines that will make Thomas Puéchavy's 2021 vintage

• July 2022: working in the vineyard and the cellar

  Seperating bunches of grapes, heat, looking for order in the vineyard and in the cellar

• Moving vats

  »When you’re a winemaker, you have to be a mover, too!«

• Julien Pineau has a restaurant!

  Julien Pineau has a restaurant and it's highly recommended

• Camilla Gjerde: »We Don’t Want Any Crap in Our Wine«

  An interview with the Norwegian writer about her book that portraits women winemakers from Austria, France and Italy

• Re: Inquiry for 300 cork (part 2)

  Finding the right cork for my first wine (part 2)

• Re: Inquiry for 300 cork (part 1)

  Finding the right cork for my first wine (part 1)

• My second Trollinger

  The quest for the best Trollinger

• Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Justus Beier

  An interview with the Director of the Clinic for Plastic Surgery, Hand and Burn Surgery at the Uniklinik RWTH Aachen

• Re: Compostable pallet wrap

  An Australian company makes compostable pallet wrap

• Ab Initio

  A very (!) long introduction to Ab Initio featuring an interview with their winemaker Emmanuel Roblin

• My wine cellar

  The first two entries to my Loire-based wine cellar

• »Les vendanges de l’amour«

  Do you know the song?

• My first Trollinger

  An intriguing German grape varietal whose reputation isn't the best

• »Les Roches«: a Chinon from 1989

  Tasting a quite legendary Cabernet Franc

• Meeting Norman re. labels

  Norman is a good friend and the graphic designer I work with in regards to the design of my first wine's label

• An interview with Romain Cole

  Romain Cole's »Es brutal !« is a book that features interviews, in French, with various winegrowers and -makers in Catalonia

• Tasting wine with Sylvain

  12 wines tasted in one evening

• »Es brutal !« – Romain Cole’s foreword

  Preparing for the interview with Romain Cole

• Frank Cornelissen and Gvantsa Otskhanuri

  Great rosé wines from Sicily and Georgia

• How I travel to the Loire

  (»By train«, that's the quick answer)

• Label copy

  What might go on the front label of my first wine

• Introducing Fabien Perréard’s »Le Nadir«

  Fabien makes stunning wines so I asked him a few questions