General
Sparkling – Champagne, Sekt, MCC
Good Champagnes, MCC (that’s the equivalent from South Africa) and Sekt (also bubbly made the French way from Germany) is often drunk with little care and attention. Life is full of challenges. First one finds out that most of these branded Champagnes, are not worth their money and then you find out that champagne is
From Ukraine with love
Should we have carefree wine tastings when bombs are falling, people are on the run from their homes and a whole country is turned to ashes by their neighbor? We discussed that at length together with our Russian and Ukrainian friends here at the shop and the common understanding was a clear - yes. Which
Syrah or Shiraz?
A friend of mine has now an Alexa at home. Eager to show me what his new toy can do he bombarded her? Or rather it? With all sorts of questions listening to the answers with an ever growing smile. “Ask her something” (he really said her) and I do not know why my question
Alcohol free wine – hoax or helper?
Recently I read an interesting article in one of the many wine magazines. It was explaining how some of the world famous wineries in Germany established themselves and it started with the questionWhat have these German wineries in common? - Weins-Prüm (Mosel) - Christofel Prüm (Mosel) -
Devil’s Wine
The story of the devil's wine Wine has been made for over 8000 years but only in the 1600's it started to be bottled in glass. Before wine was transported and served directly from the barrel or sealed leather bags. This new method made it easier to store and transport smaller quantities of wine, standardizing
The biking dog!
Tale of the biking dog We went through some photos and videos we had taken during our last trip to South Africa and I came across Charlie, the Hell`s Angel of Springfield winery! [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8pENI5_NzI[/embedyt] When Arbie Brewer inspects the vineyard he is often accompanied by Charlie, the dog of his daughter. Fearlessly he jumps