Notes From The Asparagus Festival
Spargelzeit, Germany's annual "white gold" harvest, is also a great time to ponder the splendors of spring. But what wine pairs with asparagus?
By the time I arrived for dinner at Simianer Spargelhof, on the outskirts of Hambrücken, I was fully in the grip of asparagus fever. All afternoon, I had been following part of the 84-mile Baden-Württemberg asparagus trail, stopping at tiny roadside markets marked by giant plastic white asparagus and hand-painted signs announci…