Another Order!

Big News! Last Saturday night we were invited over to our friend's house, the ones who import wine into Germany.  We met a couple of months ago and quickly realized that we had many things in common in terms of our views on wine.  Martin Kössler and Dunja Ulbricht have a retail store in Nürnberg Germany, www.weinhalle.de  and also sell to many restaurants throughout Germany, Austria and Switzerland.  They work with many of the same producers that my former boss Kermit Lynch does, but also with producers from all over Europe and even the US. 

When had our big dinner to decide how to blend our wines, I invited Dunja in order to have her expert opinion.  Martin was away on business so he missed out on the chance to taste our wines.  Dunja liked our wines and therefore wanted Martin to taste them too.  Wow! How exciting.  In the end Martin was very happy with the quality, saying that it was truly amazing for a first vintage.  He ordered a whole pallet! That's 600 bottles!  Not bad for their first order!  Yippee!

We had lunch together again on Sunday and while we were talking they said that they receive over 2000 samples a year from wineries that want them to import their wines.  It really made us realize how very lucky we were to have met them. That personal contact is so very important, without it our wine would have been just another sample sitting on their shelf waiting to be tasted! Even more important though, is that we have found new friends that love to eat great meals and drink great wines just as much as we do, and they live in a village just 10 minutes away.  Could be bad for both of us!