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...

Sad news Sad news for lovers of fine German Pinot Noir comes from the Ahr Valley, where Gerd Stodden, one of the pioneers of serious Spätburgunder in the  early 1990s, died on 16...

Readers may have expected this report a little earlier, but don't shoot me, I am only the messenger. The blame for the delay must be attributed to a very late harvest and, although 2012 was...

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...

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...

When a forum thread entitled What German wine have you drunk this week?  gets well over 200 replies, you can be pretty sure you are among ardent Deutschophiles. Yet Germany remains a...

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...

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...

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...

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...