On 28 December 1911, a small number of growers from what today constitutes the Nahe wine region got together to set up an organisation through which they would jointly and on a regular basis...

Michael Schmidt gives us an overview of this stunning vintage in Germany's 2011s - truly exceptional .  See also his notes on VDP 2011s from Pfalz & Franken and the Mosel . We will...

In a nutshell : Superb Riesling at all sweetness levels. Main grapes : Riesling, Müller-Thurgau (white); Dornfelder (red). The river Nahe flows into the giant Rhine at the western...

With the markets a-quiver with rumours that Southcorp is to be gobbled up by the British-based multinational Allied Domecq (so soon after BRL Hardy fell to the American Constellation), I bring you...

See my tasting notes on Schönleber's favourite wines . At German wine tastings, the tall, handsome figure of Werner Schönleber, with his chiselled features, shock of white...

Those with really good memories may remember a fascinating blind tasting undertaken in 2009 chez Klaus Peter Keller, about whom I wrote here yesterday, in which we compared recent vintages of...

No one could believe more forcefully in the power of terroir to imprint itself on the wine made from it than this co-author of the fifth edition of The World Atlas of Wine , but even I have to...