Content about German wine

September 16, 2012

German wine producers want us to drink more dry. But they don't want us to sour on sweets.

For years, the German wine market in the United States has been built on its sweet Rieslings – spätlese, auslese, beerenauslese, trockenbeerenausle and ice wine. Now German producers are wishing we Americans would just start drinking their dry wines as well.

April 5, 2012

The Finger Lakes

According to Native American legend, the lakes in upper New York State were created when the Great Spirit placed a hand down on earth in a blessing that left an imprint of the sacred fingers on the land.

According to Native American legend, the lakes in upper New York State were created when the Great Spirit placed a hand down on earth in a blessing that left an imprint of the sacred fingers on the land. According to science, they were formed by the Ice Age glaciers that retreated a million or so years ago, creating in their wake enormous basins gouged into ancient streambeds.

March 28, 2012

Daughter of the Blue Nun

To new owner Bettina Sichel, all her Laurel Glen wines need are better marketing exposure.

What do you do if your father is the man who made Blue Nun the biggest wine celebrity in the U.S.? If you’re Bettina Sichel, you follow in his footsteps and become a wine marketing expert.

March 3, 2012

Look at old-world wines through new-world eyes.

Today’s emerging wine consumers do not follow yesterday’s guidelines or taste preferences.

Recently I was moderating a wine-and-food seminar when the topic turned to how many wine drinkers are bucking well-established trends of buying “old-world” wines and embracing extremely low-cost “new-world” wines.