Few have done more to champion German wines in the U.S. than Rudi Wiest, who passed away March 9 in Henderson, Nev. He was 88. Rudi Wiest Selections, the import business he founded in 1978, offered ...

March 12, 2025 (Carlsbad, CA) — The German wine industry lost one of its most impactful figures on Sunday March 9 with the passing of groundbreaking importer Rudi Wiest. Wiest was transformative in ...