Posted in Wine on Oct 25th, 2011
I found this clip today while rifling through the videos from our Europe trip. Here, we sit in France’s Southern Rhone Valley on the famed hill of Hermitage. **Wikipedia’s post about the history of the hill: “According to legend, the Knight Gaspard de Stérimberg returned home wounded in 1224 from the Albigensian Crusade and was […]
Posted in Beer, G&G Videos, Wine on Sep 15th, 2011
On March 29th, 2011, Kat and I landed in Paris. For the next 93 days, we wandered through the backroads of Europe on a wine and beer journey we had dreamed about for years. While there are many lenses we can see this trip through (and trust us, with over 1500 video clips on our […]
Posted in Beer on Jul 22nd, 2011
We didn’t bring many souvenirs back from our foray into Europe. When you’re mostly on foot and with only a backpack, you ain’t gonna be one of those beer geeks that load up on a bounty of beer and check it as cargo. But we did bring a few things back. One of them was […]
Posted in Beer on Jul 6th, 2011
There’s more to love in Belgium than the beer…
Ecstatic to be leaving Europe today.
Posted in Beer on Jun 25th, 2011
Brasserie a Vapeur, the only remaining steam brewery in the world, coming alive today for the once-a-month brew.
Posted in Beer on Jun 22nd, 2011
From the moment I let it be known I was entering the hallowed beer fields of Belgium, I have been getting emails, tweets and stones thrown through my hotel windows telling me about this place. Moeder Lambic has reached international fame, and it has a pen of rabid, salivating fans ready to cage match in […]
Posted in Wine on Jun 19th, 2011
The Paulinshof estate lies in Kesten, Germany, on a lazy stretch of the Mosel River. The first historical records for the estate vineyards date back to 936 when it was owned by the St Paulin church in Trier. Since the 1960’s, its been owned by the Jüngling family. Here is a pic I took of […]
Posted in Beer on Jun 18th, 2011
Hmm..I’ll take one of those, and two of those, and one of them and, oh!, one of those bottles for sure…
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 18th, 2011
…is Wiener Melange in your cup.
Posted in Beer on Jun 17th, 2011
If it’s crawling out of the glass, you know it’s gonna be good.
Posted in Wine on Jun 16th, 2011
For some, it is just a steep hill covered in vines. But for geeks like me, it is the Holy Grail of vineyards. And it goes by one name: the “Doctor“. Two days ago, we climbed it. One of the most famous vineyards in all of Germany, it is a perfectly south-facing slope situated above […]
Rüdesheim is a wine town. Surrounded by vineyards and perched at the banks of the Rhine River, it is spectacular to see. For two nights, we sat on our hotel balcony watching the boats pass and the sun set over the water (and a ridiculous amount of trains, tracks and barges rumble past–the Rhine is, […]
Posted in Beer on Jun 13th, 2011
I ran across this ferocious bear in the town of St. Goar in the Rheingau region of Germany a few days ago. After watching him ruthlessly devour a tourist from Ohio who tried to appease him by offering him a glass of Riesling, I assessed my move carefully… My plan to smile graciously while holding […]
Posted in Wine on Jun 12th, 2011
“The production of this wine is a milestone in my life as a wine-grower and marks a break with the variety-over-Terroir dominance under which the Alsace region has suffered so greatly for the past 100 years.” – Jean-Michel Deiss While most of the winemakers of Alsace make single-variety wines from single plots of land, Domaine […]
