Nothing beats sharing wine and food with passionate wine lovers, and Saturday 19 June was no exception. It was great to welcome two bloggers I have known now for several years, Jürgen Steinke and his wife Susi, Michael Lux and his wife Valerie, along with one of my all time favorite winemakers in Alsace, Maurice [...]

Just had a nice dinner with the great French wine critic Bernard Burtschy in Paris. We spoke about Bordeaux 2009 en primeur and largely agreed on a lot of things:

we both think that the Left Bank was on average better than the Right bank
he also was not as thrilled with the Graves region as other [...]

With all this discussion about Bordeaux 2009, rating barrel samples and exciting people enough to purchase wines not yet in bottle, whose prices sometimes seem to know no bounds, it was a pleasant relief to travel near Freiburg, Germany for a dinner with fellow wine lover and blogger Jürgen Steinke and his lovely wife Susi [...]

Langoa and Léoville Barton vertical dinner at ProWein in Düsseldorf, held at Wine Live bistro and wine bar on 22 March 2010 with Lilian Barton, co-owner

Once again, I take stock of and give thanks for the existence of Château Langoa Barton – and the vineyards of the more famous Chateau Léoville [...]