Domaine South Presents
The Dinner Party: A German-Indian Affair
Featuring Vom Boden
Special Guest: Pj Rosemburg of Vom Boden
May 21, 2026 5:30 PM
Vom Boden is a small company, focusing on small growers, and it will stay that way. The heart of the portfolio is clearly in Germany, though we are proud to represent small estates in Austria, France and the U.S.
What is the unifying factor? They are all human-scaled wineries. They are small.
It’s impossible to overemphasize the importance to us of this “human scale.” Economies of scale make economic sense, but they also seem to neutralize the detail, the personality, the very thing we are searching for in wine.
2025 Peter Lauer "Barrel X " Saar Riesling, Mosel
Okra & Raita - Crispy Fried Alabama Okra, Aromatic Spices, Cool Refreshing Cucumber Raita
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2024 Hild Rosemarie Rose, Obelmosel
Vada Pav -Golden-Fried Spiced Potato Dumpling, Spicy Garlic Chutney, Tangy Green Chutney, Fluffy Bun-
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2024 Hild Zehnkommanul Elbling,Obermosel
Patra Ni Macchi = Gulf Red Snapper, Green Coconut-Coriander Chutney, Wrapped in Banana Leaf
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2023 Shelter Winery Lovely Lilly Pinot Noir, Baden
Butter Salmon - Grilled and Simmered in a Velvety Tomato Cream with Fenugreek Leaves
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2023 Shelter Winery Spatburgunder, Baden
Chicken Seekh Kebab with Vegetable Biryani - Aromatic Basmati Rice, Minced Chicken & Saffron Skewers
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2023 Muller-Ruprecht Pet-Nat Rouge, Pfalz
Lamb Tandoori - Grilled Yogurt Marinated Lamb Chop, Saffron Raita, Toasted Pistachio
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Strawberry Mishti Doi - Housemade Yogurt, Caramelized Sugar, Alabama Strawberry Puree
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The Wines
2025 Peter Lauer "Barrel X " Saar Riesling, Mosel, Germany $26.99
“Barrel X” is winemaker Florian Lauer’s Platonic ideal of what a slightly off-dry (feinherb) Saar Riesling should be. If we were in Burgundy, this would be the equivalent of a “Bourgogne Blanc.” As an appellation-level wine, it is sourced from multiple vineyards in four different villages of the Saar: Ayl (Lauer’s home village), Saarburg, Wawern and Wiltingen. Florian says, “From Ayl and Wawern, the wine gains the fruit and power, from Saarburg the racy acidity, and from Wiltingen, the spice.”
Regardless of what comes from where, this much is certain: dollar for dollar, I’m not sure there is a 750ml bottle that delivers as much joy and zing. This is the gateway drug to Lauer, to the Saar, to Riesling… be careful. Very addictive.
2024 Hild Rosemarie Rose, Obelmosel, Germany $22.99
In the cold Obermosel Pinot Noir is still not the easiest grape to ripen and this is only the second rosé the Hilds have been able to make in years. This is salty and brisk and fresh. And the label; when I saw the photograph of proprietor Matz’s older sister Rosemarie as a 5-year-old on the label it just broke my heart. In a world of painfully hip wine labels, I am so down for a return to some basic human sentimentality.
2024 Hild Zehnkommanul Elbling, Obermosel, Germany $26.99
This is, for us at least, a sacred bottle of wine. It is sourced from old, terraced Elbling vineyards which would have otherwise gone fallow, if it weren’t for the heart and passion and sheer force-of-will of one man: Matthias Hild (pictured, left). He has been making this wine since 1986, from about .15-hectare of vineyards. That’s right: point-one-five hectares, about 1,500 square meters. Thus we get, in any given year, about 30-50 cases of this wine, for the entire U.S., total.
This is less an act of winemaking, less a wine to sell, than it is a beautiful and grand gesture of cultural preservation. Working old-vine, terraced vineyards of Riesling in the middle Mosel is financially precarious; working old-vine, terraced Elbling in the upper Mosel is equal parts insane and romantic. Which sorta sums up Matthias, in the best of ways. (Check out one of the Zehnkommanull’s terraces, photographed to the left.)
Elbling is one of the oldest indigenous grapes of Europe, brought to the Mosel and planted by the Romans a few thousand years ago. In the late 18th century, the grape was nearly all ripped out in favor of Riesling, but a few hectares remain in a tiny, limestone-rich corner of the Mosel river, near Luxembourg and France. Think of the wine as a Muscadet of the Mosel, with its stone-riddled, floral/herbal and citrus tones. The “Zehnkommanull” (which translates to “10 point 0”) is called thus because, even bone dry, it never ferments to more than 10% ABV. That is the magic of old vines – phenolic ripeness without excess sugar. This is an ultra-light white, a quivering, angelic, porcelain wine with glossy, razor-sharp edges and a laser-beam lemon-skin citrus. The structure, the saturating acidity, the tapering finesse and needle-point fine-ness of the wine showcase its relation to that “other” grape of the Mosel, Riesling.
2023 Shelter Winery Lovely Lilly Pinot Noir, Baden, Germany $22.99
Medium bodied with low tannins. This has beautiful raspberry and strawberry characterisics mixed with fresh herbs and an earthy minerality.
German Pinot Noirs are all the rage. Unlike the heavy, oak-driven styles typical of the region, the Shelter wines reflect the cooler microclimate north of the Kaiserstuhl mountains where the limestone and loess soils help give their Pinot Noirs a lively acidity and delicate structure.
This is their flagship value wine, an homage to their beloved vineyard dog. The couple embrace natural vineyard practices, eschewing herbicides and pesticides, and their cellar work emphasizes gentle handling, with gravity and patience replacing pumps and filters.
2023 Shelter Winery Spatburgunder, Baden, Germany $33.99
Hans-Bert Espe and Silke Wolf farm organically in Baden, just north of the Kaiserstuhl, where the Black Forest keeps temperatures cool and the growing season long and deliberate. It's a quiet, unhurried corner of Germany that produces Spätburgunder with a refinement and precision that serious Burgundy lovers find immediately familiar — and occasionally humbling at the price point.
In the cellar, the approach is straightforward: indigenous yeast, open-top fermentation, seasoned French oak. Nothing that gets in the way of what the vineyard is saying. The 2023 vintage gave them exactly what they needed — good tension, bright acidity, and fruit that ripened slowly enough to build real structure without tipping into heaviness.
The result is elegant and precise — fine-grained tannins, a focused mid-palate, and a clean, persistent finish. It drinks like serious Pinot Noir because it is serious Pinot Noir, just with a different passport.
Do you like red Burgundy but want to explore beyond France, or simply want to spend less without drinking down? Try this!
2023 Muller-Ruprecht Pet-Nat Rouge, Pfalz, Germany $19.99
A lively, irreverent pet-nat from an old organic estate run by ‘new blood’ who learned winemaking at Keller! Bone-dry and very low in alcohol, it offers plenty of juicy red fruit, lively acidity, and just a hint of natural wine funk. A perfect pairing for smashburgers or a weeknight pizza—delicious! Food Pairing Burgers, pizza, cheese & charcuterie