Last weekend the VDP Weinbörse in Mainz provided the first comprehensive opportunity to assess the wines of the 2012 vintage. The only wines not available for tasting at this stage are the Grosse...

Bad news. Work on the ugly, unnecessary and extremely expensive motorway bridge across the Mosel at Ürzig has been resumed. Below is the view from the south/east bank of the river as taken by...

Michael Schmidt gives us an overview of this stunning vintage in Germany's 2011s - truly exceptional . See also the notes on  Nahe, Rheingau & Rheinhessen and   Pfalz &...

The video below shows a sneak peak into the workings of the annual Bernkastler Ring Riesling auction. The bidders at the front of the room are brokers acting on behalf of clients...

The following is the exasperated blog written late last night by Sarah Washington, who has led the vigorous and vociferous worldwide campaign against the proposed building of an ugly, expensive...

Sarah Washington, chief campaigner against the proposed Mosel bridge sketched here, sends this message about the current situation: There is now a building freeze in place for the duration...

The energetic chief co-ordinator of the campaign against the proposed Mosel bridge Sarah Washington has just sent the following encouraging news from Germany. We have been agitating against the...

I have just received the following worrying news from Sarah Washington in the Mosel Valley, who has co-ordinated the campaign of protest against the proposed ugly and unnecessary bridge across...

Not long ago Michael Schmidt, our German specialist, wrote an article about some of the steepest vineyards in the Mosel Valley. He called it Hot and dangerous. The danger of working the...

23 May - See this report in the New York Times that summarises the current precarious state of play. I'm delighted to report that our press briefing at Hot Spot in Berlin on...

My tasting notes below on wines currently produced in the once-important region described in The Forgotten Moselle are grouped by region, first Moselle then Côtes de Toul. ...

We have all heard about mysterious disappearances in the infamous Bermuda triangle, but much less is known about an even greater vanishing act in what might be named the Meurthe et Moselle square,...

Last night in Berlin the Hot Spot Chinese restaurant, a favourite haunt of the city's off-duty chefs, was even hotter than usual. From before 5 pm when Hugh Johnson, Nick and I arrived, it...

David Rayer of Mosel Fine Wines , a website specalising in information about, and reviews of, the wines of that region, sends this news of changes at the von Othegraven estate. A star...

Mosel Wine Merchant, US importer of such estates as Clemens Busch, Reinhard & Beate Knebel, Peter Lauer, Günther Steinmetz, and Weingut Stein, very recently posted on its website the...