Grüner Silvaner

I think the first time I consciously discovered the Silvaner grape was on a Lufthansa flight from Düsseldorf to New York back in 2009. I can still recall the crisp taste as I ate lunch while looking down on the Scottish Highlands. Recreating a Lufthansa appetiser favourite with oven-roasted tomatoes, the Keller Grüner Silvaner proves to be an excellent match, with notes of white flowers, peach, and citrus that burst from the glass and transport me straight back there – high above the blue Atlantic.

Otherwise, I spent an icy afternoon running down to the Ume River and then back through the city, adding another fourteen kilometres to my Marrakech race preparations. Tomorrow, the temperature is expected to drop further, to –15 degrees, but hopefully I will still be able to fit in another long run over the weekend when milder winds are forecast to return. Before that, however, formal work life makes a reappearance on Thursday in the form of a pedagogical workshop that I am very much looking forward to.