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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
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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Michael and Tam spent last weekend tasting the latest, 2014 vintage of German wines at the annual showing in Wiesbaden...
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At the end of January there was a meeting of Britain's Riesling Fellowship in Vintners' Hall at which David Motion...
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Do wine and cheese go together? Well, apparently not, but more about this later. On 25 January I was privileged...
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Iris Ellmann of The WineBarn is holding her usual annual tasting on 9 March this year and she's again offering...
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See Sorting through the assortments for a guide to the collections of tasting notes already published and those yet to...
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Late last month media agent Louis Eschenauer announced that the famous Pfalz wine estate Koehler-Ruprecht of Kallstadt had decided to...
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An extraordinary tasting of mature dry Riesling wines took place at the end of August, coinciding with the VDP presentation...
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Justerini & Brooks is, with Tanners of Shrewsbury, the traditional UK wine merchant that takes German wine most seriously. OW...
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A new regulation is likely to result in the reappearance of a host of top-quality vineyard names on the labels...
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This is a slightly longer version of an article that was also published in the Financial Times. Usually when I...
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We can't get enough Riesling, especially during the summer months (see why in My great white hope), so here is...
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This is a longer version of an article that also appeared in the Financial Times. See also my tasting notes...
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Yesterday the German Constitutional Court at Karlsruhe finally rejected a complaint from several growers and wineries against the mandatory levy...
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Last Wednesday 11 June 2014 the German wine industry lost one of its all-time great producers, Bernhard Huber, the 55-year-old...
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Our mainly Germanic week continues. To judge from the nearly 2,000 posts on the Which German wine have you drunk...
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You would probably most readily associate this title with a new estate in New Zealand's Marlborough region, but even in...
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