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See also Tamlyn‘s tasting notes from a 10th anniversary tasting of wines from The WineBarn. In the tiny, picturesque Hampshire...
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Although Iris Ellmann usually holds an annual tasting for press and private customers in London at the start of each...
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The following notes were taken at the most extraordinary two-day tasting of 100 vintages of Riesling made at the state...
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When I taste wines for our database of 40,000+ tasting notes on this site, I always give a score and...
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I was in Germany last weekend* and everyone was complaining, as in the rest of Europe, about the harshness of...
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The WineBarn invites Purple pagers to taste some of Germany’s best wines. On Monday 11 Jan, 14 of Germany’s leading...
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Earlier this year, news rocked the usually placid German wine scene that 15 or so of the country’s top producers...
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Berlin-based wine writer Stuart Pigott, one of the most celebrated in Germany, has just made his first-ever wine. Here's the...
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On the eve of the Grosse Gewächse 2008 sneak preview in Wiesbaden (on which I will be reporting in full...
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See a lively discussion regarding German Pinot Noir on our members' forum. Every year since 2002 the Institute of Masters...
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I recently received the following touching email from Rheingau-raised California winemaker Walter Schug and thought it appropriate to publish it...
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You may have noticed in Last chance to stop the bridge my comments about the British-born Stuart Pigott, now based...
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Wolfgang Hehle was a tax consultant and a beer drinker when he married Helle Cossmann in the 1970s. Her father...
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In an extraordinary development, the 14 top German wine producers listed below have, in a letter, ‘declared war’ on Christian...
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Two small statistics suggest that a groundswell of enthusiasm for dry German wines is slowly building. The other day I...
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See also this recent coverage of fine, dry German whites: A final fling with Sylvaner Great Sylvaner Do German dry...
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