As I explained yesterday, these two tasting articles are published, as suggested by our German-wine-loving members of Purple Pages, to complement this summer's offer from specialist importer into the UK Howard Ripley. We have done our best to get these 165 tasting notes published to meet H Ripley's request that orders for the most popular wines are submitted by this Friday. I should make it clear that not every wine in these two articles is included in the final offer, but all the samples were submitted...
Howard Ripley 2019 Germans part 2
Wednesday 8 July 2020
See also yesterday's part 1 with its tasting notes on 100 wines from Mosel-Saar-Ruwer.
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