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Beyond the frost line – Germany's 2024 VDP wines
Paula Redes Sidore
Wednesday 18 June 2025
• 6 min read
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Germany 2023 – Rheingau, Rheinhessen, Pfalz and Franken
Paula Redes Sidore
Friday 24 May 2024
• 6 min read
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GG releases in 2022 – Riesling part 1
Paula Redes Sidore
Thursday 22 September 2022
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The WineBarn's annual portfolio tasting throws up some some real gems, extremely good value from newcomers and reliable brilliance from...
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After a day wallowing in red wines (see The return of the Weinbörse, part 1), Paula examined what the cool...
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27 February 2022 Eva Fricke's more serious 2020s have at last been added.
3 October 2021 Eva Fricke's five screwcapped...
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Entrant Ulrich Hagenmeyer writes in, ' The article is named "Creutz -- Buried, Denied, Risen again" and describes the last-minute...
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This may be Michael's last collection of tasting notes on 2020's GG releases, this time great German wines that aren't...
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The last of Michael's three collections of tasting notes on (mostly) 2019 Grosse Gewächse. See his notes on GGs from...
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Introducing his entry to our 2020 writing competition, Londoner David Frail writes, ‘I retired from International Telecoms in December and...
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The last of this mammoth series based on Michael's pandemic-inspired tastings at home in the Ahr Valley. See this guide...
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See also yesterday's part 1 with its tasting notes on 100 wines from Mosel-Saar-Ruwer.
As I explained yesterday, these two...
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The final part of Michael’s report from three days of valiant tasting at the end of August, plus three complaints...
Wines of the week
From €14.50, £16.60 (per bottle if you buy a case of 6), $29.99 Find this wine As I mentioned in...
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As Michael's many tasting notes on this year's crop of 2017 Grosse Gewächs are prepared for publication, we publish this...
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From €6.80, $13.99, £12.75 Find this wine The other weekend we opened a bottle of Hans Wirsching Iphöfer Julius-Echter-Berg Silvaner...
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For full details of our coverage of the excellent 2016 vintage in Germany, see this guide. Jancis writes Michael's introduction...
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See also part 1 and part 2 of Michael's Franken trilogy. First mention of the hamlet of Castell can be...
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See also part 1 of Michael's trilogy, 700 years of the Bürgerspital. There is no doubt that the Würzburger Stein...
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