Described by Michael Schmidt as 'a vintage which will be up there with the greats of recent decades', 2011 in Germany is very well covered on this site. Below is a guide to all we have published,...

See our guide to our extensive coverage of Germany's 2011s . The Grosse Gewächse from the Weissburgunder (Pinot Blanc) grape are another success story of the 2011 vintage. The most...

See the complete guide to all our coverage of Germany's exciting 2011s. Having focused on the wines from the VDP Nahe, Mosel and Saar at the Weinbörse tastings earlier in June, I took...

For more tasting notes and articles, see Germany 2011 - the guide . I try not to get too excited any more at my age, but my first impression of 2011 is that of a vintage which will be up...

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...

Perhaps the most fascinating and pleasurable restaurant trend of the past five years has been the almost headlong rush of those once practising only at the most expensive level into the less...

These notes, to be read as background to my tasting notes , are generally more specific observations than those in my vintage overview in wine news. Médoc Cabernet Sauvignon...

These notes, all taken at a tasting organised by Justerini & Brooks in London last September, are a post scriptum to our extensive coverage of Germany 2011, catalogued in Germany 2011 – the...

See also this other new name in the Mosel , and, relevantly, this recent acceptance speech for the Maurice O'Shea Award 2012 from Australia's king of Riesling, and king of screwcaps, Jeffrey...

See also An Aussie on the Mosel for news of another new young winemaker in the valley. It's always fun to come across a promising new producer and I was very impressed by the...

From €6.47, $12.84, 99 Swedish krone, 103 Danish krone, £11.89, Sing$29.24 Find this wine As promised here , the VDP producers of the Rheingau came back to London to...

In this third and final instalment of his report on this year's official Grosses Gewächs tasting in Wiesbaden, Michael Schmidt reports on the 2011 Silvaners and Grauburgunders he tasted, as well...

Jancis writes: Last week we published part 1 , my tasting notes from the big showing of   2011 Grosses Gewãchs in Wiesbaden at the end of August. Below are the notes that Michael took...

At the brilliantly organised Wiesbaden presentation of the new vintage of top dry wines by VDP producers (see A miracle of wine service ), Michael Schmidt and I sat side by side and tried to...