Wine and the Sweet Hereafter
One of my favorite pieces of wine and travel writing is a German wine journey that began with an old book I bought at a local library sale.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that umlauts scare away American wine lovers. For whatever reason, bottles with labels bearing those diacritical points, floating above terms like spätlese or grapes called spätburgunder or müller-thurgau or places named Würzburg or Württemb…