Germany

Tasting articles The following notes were taken at the most extraordinary two-day tasting of 100 vintages of Riesling made at the state...

Free for all When I taste wines for our database of 40,000+ tasting notes on this site, I always give a score and...

Inside information I was in Germany last weekend* and everyone was complaining, as in the rest of Europe, about the harshness of...

Free for all The WineBarn invites Purple pagers to taste some of Germany’s best wines. On Monday 11 Jan, 14 of Germany’s leading...

Don't quote me Earlier this year, news rocked the usually placid German wine scene that 15 or so of the country’s top producers...

Free for all Berlin-based wine writer Stuart Pigott, one of the most celebrated in Germany, has just made his first-ever wine. Here's the...

Tasting articles On the eve of the Grosse Gewächse 2008 sneak preview in Wiesbaden (on which I will be reporting in full...

Tasting articles See a lively discussion regarding German Pinot Noir on our members' forum. Every year since 2002 the Institute of Masters...

Inside information I recently received the following touching email from Rheingau-raised California winemaker Walter Schug and thought it appropriate to publish it...

Free for all You may have noticed in Last chance to stop the bridge my comments about the British-born Stuart Pigott, now based...

Tasting articles Wolfgang Hehle was a tax consultant and a beer drinker when he married Helle Cossmann in the 1970s. Her father...

Free for all In an extraordinary development, the 14 top German wine producers listed below have, in a letter, ‘declared war’ on Christian...

Free for all Two small statistics suggest that a groundswell of enthusiasm for dry German wines is slowly building. The other day I...

Tasting articles See also this recent coverage of fine, dry German whites: A final fling with Sylvaner Great Sylvaner Do German dry...

Free for all This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. Last weekend in Germany it seemed...

Tasting articles Do take a look at Silvaner's 350th – videos to understand the context of this tasting of 27 of the...