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The Toasts I did not make

Notes from the Berliner Wein Trophy — Part II More than a month has passed since I wrote about my first impressions of the…

September 2026 · 8 min read

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Notes from the Berliner Wein Trophy

Some invitations you accept for professional reasons. Others you accept because they make you genuinely happy. The invitation to sit on the jury of…

August 2026 · 6 min read

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