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MOSEL VERSUS MONTRACHET

by Cary Feibleman • 8/27/12

THE GERMANS ARE COMING & THEY ARE STAYING FOR DINNER! While the wine fraud scandal and sky high auction prices have grabbed all the headlines this year, the German wine industry has, like mild mannered Clark Kent,  slipped into the phone booth and emerged with a new persona as Superman. A nation known largely as […]

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GERMANY 2010 – A SPECTACULAR VINTAGE

by Cary Feibleman • 8/28/11

Imagine if Philippine Rothschild had said that today’s supermarket Mouton Cadet was the equal of the 1982 Chateau Mouton Rothschild, the estate’s flagship wine from a famed vintage. Hanno Zilliken, owner/winemaker of the famed German Saar estate Forstmeister Zilliken, made a similar statement, comparing his 2010 wines to a cellar aged 1983 gold capsule Auslese, a prized late harvest wine from a highly praised vintage.

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