We have already published the following articles on the difficult but promising 2010 vintage in Germany. Germany 2010 - Howard Ripley's offer 23 Jun 2011 Germany 2010 - Bernkasteler Ring...

So far, we have published the following articles on the difficult but promising 2010 vintage in Germany. Germany 2010 - More from the Mosel (and Nahe) 15 Jul 2011 Germany 2010 - Howard...

Update 15 Jul 2011: So far, we have published the following articles on the difficult but promising 2010 vintage in Germany. Germany 2010 - More from the Mosel (and Nahe) 15 Jul 2011...

If one had to sum up the 2010 vintage in a nutshell, the one word to describe it best would have to be 'difficult'. It cannot be denied that the weather was far from any grower's dream. Some...

It's sad to report restaurants closing rather than opening but one of my favourites, the Gousse d'Ail in Oxford, has just gone into receivership. It was always too ambitious for its location (in...

Before we publish all the tasting notes on the exceptional 2011s about which Michael Schmidt has enthused here , we offer a collection of reviews of German wines from older vintages, mainly 2010s...

For Michael's reviews of 2010 and 2009 Grosse Gewächse, see   The taste of fear - GG Riesling 2010  and   GG part 2 - 2009 Spätburgunder & southern 2010 Rieslings . See...

Lots of Grosse Gewächse interest on the forum, including tips on where to buy and what to buy from our Purple pagers. On 25 September at Kloster Eberbach I had the opportunity to finish my...

This is first part of Michael's review of the current VDP Grosse Gewächse releases and covers the 2010 whites apart from Franken. The second part, on Spätburgunder 2009 and Franken Riesling...

A presentation of the Ahr, Nahe and Rheinhessen chapters of the VDP in early July gave me the opportunity to catch up with the 2010 offerings of some growers whose wines I had missed out on at the...

So far, we have published the following articles on the difficult but promising 2010 vintage in Germany. Germany 2010 - More from the Mosel (and Nahe) 15 Jul 2011 Germany 2010 - Howard...

So far, we have published the following articles on the difficult but promising 2010 vintage in Germany. Germany 2010 - More from the Mosel (and Nahe) 15 Jul 2011 Germany 2010 -...

The recent flowering of talent in the Rheinhessen, as described today in Michael Schmidt's tasting article on the Rhinhessen 2010s , has been concentrated in the south west of this large German...

Yesterday in London was not exceptional but it was one of the busier days in the wine trade calendar. We could choose between the Masters of Wine’s annual burgundy tasting (another look at...

On the night of Wednesday 9 Jun thunderstorms, hail and torrential rains caused an estimated 20-30 million euros' worth of damage to vineyards and other agricultural crops in the south west...