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Howard Ripley's 2021 Germans

Jancis Robinson

Wednesday 22 June 2022

Germany Germany 2021 Riesling

Felseneck vineyard in Bockenau in the Nahe, Weingut Schäfer-Frölich

28 June 2022 Tasting notes on four Mosbacher Pfalz wines, also in the Howard Ripley offer, have been added to the very bottom of this article.

22 June 2022 Some 2021s hand-picked by a London specialist in German wine. Pictured above is the Grosse Lage Felseneck in the Nahe, source of some of Schäfer-Frölich's finest Rieslings.

Sebastian Thomas of Howard Ripley Wines showed his first selection of 2021 German whites on a warm day in London last week and is asking his customers to submit their orders by Friday this week so – faster than the speed of light...

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