Finally, June 24, 2017 had arrived: it marked a special day for us, the volunteers of the Kreuzberg vineyard in Berlin. It's the day we had all looked forward to with quite some excitement: famous winemaker Simone Adams was coming to “our vineyard” to launch the first red wine ever made from grapes of this
Late last year I had the pleasure to interview winemaker Horst Hummel at our apartment in Berlin, to talk about - and taste - his newly-released 2015 Góré wine. The Góré is Horst's first ever orange wine, a white wine made by macerating and fermenting the juice on its skins and seeds. It was for the
It was my lucky day: I’d just received an invitation to attend a very special wine event to taste a wine that even money can’t buy! The “Kreuz–Neroberger” Riesling is a wine made entirely from grapes sourced from Berlin’s oldest vineyard in Kreuzberg. “What the?” I hear you say, “A vineyard in the middle of
Wein Messe Berlin, Part I, the whites. My recent visit to this wine show was an eye opener. Not only that I was able to taste a large number of most beautiful German white wines - as expected! - but I also tried a variety of German and Austrian red wines, which I have never
I only have arrived in Berlin a couple of weeks ago and can not believe the amount of tastings and wine education which is on offer here. Thank you Berlin! So with excitement I made my way last week to Villa Elisabeth in Berlin-Mitte which hosted this Crus-Bourgeois du Medoc trade tasting. I only found
