'Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide No. 7' - a departure from the past

(AWMB/October 2008) - For the 7th, completely revised edition of Robert Parker's perennially best-selling Wine Buyer's Guide, the entire six-headed team of the Wine Advocate was mobilized in order to generate for the most part entirely new text. David Schildknecht authored among others the majority of chapters on wines of France, as well as those concerning Austria and Germany, which each for the first time received an extensive chapter of their own. Schildknecht offers an introduction to the relevant wine laws, sine styles, history, vintage characteristics, and terroir, as well as countless not entirely uncontroversial recommendations for consumers, a ranking of the estates, and descriptions and wine ratings for close to a hundred leading producers in Germany as well as Austria...>>

Austrian Wines Provide a Panoply of Flavors

(AWMB/November 2008) - Thanksgiving just wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without some of the mainstay dishes that symbolize the day itself: turkey, giblet stuffing and gravy, cranberries and sweet potatoes, to name a few. But, while their flavors are inimitable, these foods are not necessarily easy to accommodate when it comes to finding their ideal matching wines – especially when served altogether at the same meal... >>

The new blind Tasting reference Honours Austria's Grüner Veltliner

(AWMB/July 2008) - S4C, short for Sommeliers for Consumers, is the world’s only sommelier tasting council uniting 14 of the world’s greatest sommeliers, amongst whom Gérard Basset, Master Sommelier & Master of Wine, Olivier Poussier, Best Sommelier of the World 2000, Markus del Monego, Best Sommelier of the World 1998, and Isa Bal, Best Sommelier of Europe 2008, to cite but four of the prestigious S4C tasting panel members... >>