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Nick's most memorable restaurants of 2025
An annual round-up of gastronomic pleasure. Above, the German island of Sylt which provided Nick with an excess of it in July 2025. At this time of year I like...
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
Paula Redes Sidore
Monday 20 October 2025
• 7 min read
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Wines of the week
STOP PRESS I have just learnt that the Zillikens are crowned Winemakers of the Year in the influential Gault Millau...
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Annegret Reh-Gartner is not the only prominent German vintner we have lost recently. Fritz Hasselbach of the renowned Rheinhessen wine...
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See also below the farewell letter Annegret wrote a few days ago, and some lovely observations from Chris Davey of...
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27 August On Thursday 25 August Dr Carl von Schubert from the the Maximin Grünhaus estate was elected new president...
Tasting articles
See this guide to our assemblages. Jancis writes The exhilarating number of high scores at the top of the German...
Inside information
Simon Reilly of www.wineloon.com tells us what he did on his holidays. On a recent family holiday in Germany, I...
Tasting articles
See this guide to our coverage of Germany's 2015s. Yes this picture of Howard Ripley’s 2015 German tasting in London...
Tasting articles
Tam writes Soon after Jancis and Michael's recent Riesling fest at the Weinbörse, Richard and I seized the chance to...
Tasting articles
The time when the vast region of Rheinhessen was a sleeping giant with untapped potential has long gone. Today the...
Nick on restaurants
A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. As our taxi turned into the small village of...
Nick on restaurants
Jancis’s article today on the 2015 German wines she tasted recently at the enormous annual trade fair held by the...
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A slightly shorter version of this article is published in the Financial Times. See also my 220 tasting notes and...
Tasting articles
Julia presents the first tasting report on Germany's exceptional 2015s. Mine follows next week and then it will be Michael...
Inside information
As reported on this site yesterday, on Sunday 24 April the Vereinigung Deutscher Prädikatsweingüter (VDP, the association of most of...
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What wonderful birthday presents I was given this year. Last Wednesday, two days before the birthday itself, I was honoured...
Tasting articles
It has been too long since we published a collection of German tasting notes. We are the official cheer leaders...
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