Our secret weapon in the quest for eye-popping wine values from Europe is the wine hunter and self-proclaimed “King of the Literflasche” Willie Glūckstern, forty-plus year veteran of the NYC wine business and one of America’s greatest German wine buyers, tasters, and defenders. Nobody spends more time on the ground in the German wine country than Willie. His current obsession is LITERS—Fürst Elbling, Borell-Diehl Müller-Thurgau and Kimich Riesling Trocken—which David Bowler Wine proudly sells by the boatful throughout the United States.

Also a successful author, Willie (with co-author Evan Spingarn) penned the madcap, illustrated paperback The Wine Avenger (Simon & Schuster), which sets out to debunk the myths and misinformation surrounding the (allegedly) complex subject of wine. The book has seen multiple editions and sold thousands of copies to amused, grateful and horrified readers.