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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
Paula Redes Sidore
Monday 20 October 2025
• 7 min read
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See Our collected works – a guide. From today until the end of the month, we'll be publishing a succession...
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JJ Prüm's 2012s are currently being offered In the UK (at bargain prices) so we thought now would be a...
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Yesterday, on the occasion of his state visit to Berlin, Barack Obama was presented with a gift of 2011 Piesporter...
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You are never too old to learn, unless, obviously, you think you know it all already. Fortunately a natural curiosity...
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Less than two months after the sudden death of Gerhard 'Jean' Stodden, another legendary winemaker of the region has passed...
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Be sure to come back next week for Julia's big supplementary collection of German 2011 tasting notes. Claudia Pech, Sebastian...
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Sad news Sad news for lovers of fine German Pinot Noir comes from the Ahr Valley, where Gerd Stodden, one...
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When I had notification yesterday of a special parcel of fine German wines at Majestic, I so much wanted to...
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As noted in this 1,000-post thread on our forum, the wine estate Peter Lauer of Ayl on the river Saar...
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On 28 December 1911, a small number of growers from what today constitutes the Nahe wine region got together to...
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See also this other new name in the Mosel, and, relevantly, this recent acceptance speech for the Maurice O'Shea Award...
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Jancis writes: Last week we published part 1, my tasting notes from the big showing of 2011 Grosses Gewãchs in...
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At the brilliantly organised Wiesbaden presentation of the new vintage of top dry wines by VDP producers (see A miracle...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. See my tasting notes on Schönleber's...
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Those with really good memories may remember a fascinating blind tasting undertaken in 2009 chez Klaus Peter Keller, about whom...
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At last week's AGM of the VDP (top German wine) estates in Freiburg, the central issue was a further development...
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