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...

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...

From €6.13, £9.79,and also available in Sweden and Norway Find this wine This is just the time of year when a razor-sharp dry Riesling absolutely does the trick –...

In a nutshell : Increasing trend away from bulk towards quality wines. Main grapes : Müller-Thurgau, Riesling (white); Spätburgunder (red). The varied terrain, much of it...

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...

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...

You are never too old to learn, unless, obviously, you think you know it all already. Fortunately a natural curiosity about wine has so far saved me from joining the latter category. Mention the...

It is always a pleasure to taste some of the finest dry wines in Germany. On the last weekend of August I had the huge pleasure of spending the Saturday with Klaus Peter Keller of Rheinhessen and...

Klaus Peter Keller of Weingut Keller in Rheinhessen sends this happy and satisified report on his year in the vineyar and the results in the cellar. Low yields, exciting wines...

Klaus Peter Keller, passionate and perfectionist Riesling and Pinot producer in the Flörsheim-Dalsheim area of Rheinhessen, wrote to tell us that he has tentatively expanded eastwards by renting...

Klaus Peter Keller (pictured here with his wife Julia) provides some phenological data for 2008 in his vineyards around Flörsheim-Dalsheim in Rheinhessen followed by his impressions of the...

Four nights in New York after a professionally negligent gap of almost three years yielded two inescapable facts about this hectic city's restaurant life. The first is that almost in spite...

Carlisle is the north-westernmost town in England, a very, very long way from the fleshpots of London (usually well over four hours by train, thanks to the vagaries of Sir Richard Branson's Virgin...