After our Monday report German Pinots do themselves a favour  comes more good news from Germany. With the hottest and driest April for decades, the 2011 growing season leapt out of...

The 2011 vintage seems to be going really rather well in Germany. See below for some recent reports, the most recent first. All illustrated by some stunning photographs taken by Klaus Peter...

Klaus Peter Keller of Rheinhessen has been wielding his camera again (see his previous images of the 2011 harvest here ). Below is Sarah Jane, 15-year-old daughter of our forum's greatest...

Last week saw some pretty awful weather throughout many of northern Europe's major wine regions. V irtually the whole of France was treated to torrential rain last Friday, which must have...

It's early days yet, and when it comes to capricious Mother Nature nothing can be predicted, but as the first European pre-harvest reports start trickling in, and we hear of red grapes being...

9 May - Michael Schmidt adds from Germany: In many wine regions of Germany, 4 May was a day of far-reaching significance. A drop in temperatures down to minus 5 ºC during the night...