See also Tamlyn‘s tasting notes from a 10th anniversary tasting of wines from The WineBarn. In the tiny, picturesque Hampshire village of Dummer (home to the likes of Prince...

In between the two tasting sessions devoted to a century of Riesling at Kloster Eberbach was this dinner, to which the local great and good were invited. Also in the monks' refectory. The high...

When I taste wines for our database of 40,000+ tasting notes on this site, I always give a score and a suggested drinking period.   I give the score somewhat reluctantly as I really don’t...

I was in Germany last weekend* and everyone was complaining, as in the rest of Europe, about the harshness of the winter. Frankfurt airport had been overwhelmed by snow the previous day. In the...

The WineBarn invites Purple pagers to taste some of Germany’s best wines. On Monday 11 Jan, 14 of Germany’s leading winemakers* will travel to London to show fine wines from their...

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...

Earlier this year, news rocked the usually placid German wine scene that 15 or so of the country’s top producers had threatened not to submit any of their wines to any tastings for the 2010...

Michael Schmidt, who last month gave us an excellent and detailed account of the 2008 and 2007 Grosse Gewächse German wines, sends this round-up of confident reactions in Germany to the...

Michael Schmidt will be giving us his detailed report on the 2009 vintage tomorrow, and we have had some early comments from Klaus Peter Keller (end Sep - when this photo of some of his Pinot...

This is the second half of wine writer Stuart Pigott's account of making his own wine. See also Part 1 . This very long account is entitled 'The mad harvest, wild fermentation and more IRP'....

Berlin-based wine writer Stuart Pigott, one of the most celebrated in Germany, has just made his first-ever wine. Here's the first part of his account of the process, all a result of his studies...

Klaus Peter Keller of Rheinhessen sent these pictures - the view from the  Frauenberg vineyard and some super-ripe, super-healthy Pinot Noir grapes -  and this report on the current...

See a lively discussion regarding German Pinot Noir on our members' forum . Every year since 2002 the Institute of Masters of Wine has organised a tutored tasting immediately before...

I recently received the following touching email from Rheingau-raised California winemaker Walter Schug and thought it appropriate to publish it on the same day as my tasting notes on German...

Yesterday was the day that we were officially allowed to review Germany's 2008 Grosses Gewächs wines. Michael Schmidt has been diligently tasting a vast number of these wines on our behalf and...