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Nick's most memorable restaurants of 2025
Nick Lander
Sunday 14 December 2025
• 1 min read
Wine news in 5
Protests in France, Domaine Sigalas acquisition, Vinarchy to cull wine brands
Plus an early harvest for ice wine in Germany, and the oldest vine in the world. Above, Domaine Sigalas vineyard (image courtesy of the domaine). As you can see [if...
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Friday 28 November 2025
• 1 min read
Tasting articles
New GG releases in 2025 – reds
In a perilous vintage, Germany’s best 2023 Spätburgunders are a testament to nerve and precision in the vineyard. Also see Paula’s report on new GG Riesling releases and other GG...
Paula Redes Sidore
Monday 20 October 2025
• 7 min read
More Germany
Tasting articles
Julia samples some great Rheinhessen, and now Mosel, wines from cask, in situ. Please note that many of these wines...
Tasting articles
Our spring collections of geographically themed tasting notes continue. See those already published on Spain and the United States, and...
Tasting articles
We report on the 42 wines served at our second Riesling Night, this time devoted to Kabinetts young and old...
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Tim Jackson MW (left) and Richard Hemming MW did the heavy lifting at Riesling Night 2. Michael's and Jancis's tasting...
Tasting articles
An under-the-radar Saar estate restored to its former glory. Once upon a time the estate of Reverchon at Konz-Filzen near...
Tasting articles
Lucky Michael wallows in another vertical of a German icon. He plans to be at our second Riesling Night in...
Wines of the week
Julia recommends an exemplary dry German Riesling.
From €12.90, £15.80, $19.99, CA$30.70, AU$62
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Eva Fricke may not...
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...
Don't quote me
See also A foretaste of this year's German auction wines. The VDP auctions on 21 and 23 September in Trier...
Tasting articles
The air was buzzing with esters, polyphenols, flavonoids, amino acids, sugars and acids at The Royal Society of Chemistry a...
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19 September 2018 We have begun to publish Michael's reports on this year's presentation of GGs in Wiesbaden, and I...
Tasting articles
As Tam noted when she recently attended a presentation of new German wines to the customers of traditional London wine...
Tasting articles
As Michael's many tasting notes on this year's crop of 2017 Grosse Gewächs are prepared for publication, we publish this...
Tasting articles
This is the first of three detailed reports based on Michael's recent tastings of Mosels, mainly from the 2017 vintage...
Tasting articles
Even when I take a break from German wine, I can’t quite leave it alone, and when I recently spent...
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Those with long memories may remember our dismay at plans to build a bridge over the Mosel near the famed...
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