The 2010 German harvest was severely reduced in terms of quantity produced, and the quality prospects for the dry white Grosse Gewächse 2010s are expected to be on a more modest scale than their...

Michael Schmidt writes: 2009 - much ado about nothing? This was a question I came to ask myself several times during the sneak preview of the Riesling Grosse and Erste Gewächse white wines of...

We have published our many hundreds of tasting notes so far on Germany's exceptionally approachable 2009 vintage in several different tranches, as listed below, most recent first. But...

We hope that even if you have never bought German wine, you will consider experimenting with the 2009s. Compared with their counterparts from Bordeaux, they are terrific bargains and the quality...

Michael Schmidt, who last month gave us an excellent and detailed account of the 2008 and 2007 Grosse Gewächse German wines, sends this round-up of confident reactions in Germany to the...

Michael Schmidt will be giving us his detailed report on the 2009 vintage tomorrow, and we have had some early comments from Klaus Peter Keller (end Sep - when this photo of some of his Pinot...

Klaus Peter Keller of Rheinhessen sent these pictures - the view from the  Frauenberg vineyard and some super-ripe, super-healthy Pinot Noir grapes -  and this report on the current...

See Notable Chinese wine producers for details of China's most significant wineries. One of Hong Kong's most prominent corporate financiers was entertaining a top Chinese government...

What German Wine Needs is one of the wine trade's favourite games. As exports of wine from Germany slide apparently remorselessly, those who can bear to take their eyes off the much more...

What a lot of fun I had at the end of the week before last. Much of Thursday afternoon was spent tasting 2009 Clos de Vougeots from 57 different producers blind, while Friday morning was...

From 19.90 euros, 34 Swiss francs, 298 Norwegian krone, Aus$79.95 a bottle and £185 a dozen in bond. [For an importer's comments on the issue of tax on wine in Australia, see here on the...

Below are more notes on Germany's super-friendly 2009 vintage, all the wines having been tasted in London recently. They include some of those currently on offer from UK wine merchant Tanners, one...

See our guides to our extensive coverage of Germany's toothsome 2009s - and don't forget the more classical German 2008s . As a complement to today's selection of German 2009s from...

See our guides to our extensive coverage of Germany's toothsome 2009s - and don't forget the more classical German 2008s . I was going to wait before publishing these notes on German...

I'm always bemoaning how few specialist importers of Germany's increasingly fine wines there are in the UK. But now a newcomer has joined the rather thin ranks that currently comprise Justerini...