It's always a special day when we get to write about wines made by someone truly close to us, in this case, a dear friend who enriched our lives while she was in New York City, and who went on to champion real wine at Restaurant Candide in Montreal before winding up in Austria and settling down in Germany, where she now makes delicious, soulful wines that we get to share with you today! Wein Goutte is the project of Christophe Müller and Emily Campeau and is a small winery and vegetable farm located in Franken, Germany. Emily, otherwise known as Emy, was the original Chef de Cuisine at the first iteration of Racines NY. During the first 6 months of Racines NY, I helped open the restaurant as the head bartender, and I got to experience firsthand Emy's passion for cooking, hospitality, and wine, and her infectious warmth and hilarious sense of humor that she shared with the staff and clientele. Now it's with great honor and excitement that I get to share her wines and ciders with folks near and far. These are bottles that I can imagine drinking happily with Emy and our friends, they are not precious or complicated, but they are by no means simple. Invigorating is a word that comes to mind! 

What follows below is an hommage to the wines and ciders from our good friend and their US importer, Stephen Bitterolf from Vom Boden: