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...

One of the highlights of the VDP (German premium wine producers' association) 100th anniversary celebrations was the series of three auctions held on 24, 25 an 26 September in Trier (Mosel), Bad...

Michael Schmidt writes: 2009 - much ado about nothing? This was a question I came to ask myself several times during the sneak preview of the Riesling Grosse and Erste Gewächse white wines of...

We have published our many hundreds of tasting notes so far on Germany's exceptionally approachable 2009 vintage in several different tranches, as listed below, most recent first. But...

Michael Schmidt, a resident of the Ahr region and responsible for this picture of Ahr vineyards in autumn, reports on the results of a telling recent wine competition, as reported by...

We hope that even if you have never bought German wine, you will consider experimenting with the 2009s. Compared with their counterparts from Bordeaux, they are terrific bargains and the quality...

On the night of Wednesday 9 Jun thunderstorms, hail and torrential rains caused an estimated 20-30 million euros' worth of damage to vineyards and other agricultural crops in the south west...