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Wine Capital Mainz 2025
Highlights from the Sekt show, VinVin and the Biodynamic Wine Fair in Rheinhessen’s central city. In the image above we are instructed to 'Always follow the bubbles' into the Sektbörse...
Paula Redes Sidore
Thursday 3 July 2025
• 8 min read
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Southern strength – Germany's 2024 VDP wines
Paula Redes Sidore
Thursday 19 June 2025
• 5 min read
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Kühling-Gillot, Qvinterra Riesling trocken, Rheinhessen
Julia Harding MW
Friday 2 May 2025
• 1 min read
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The final part of Michael’s report from three days of valiant tasting at the end of August, plus three complaints...
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Some additional tasting notes on 2018 Rheinhessen dry Rieslings, and some from Louis Guntrum. See this guide to our extensive...
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See also part 1 of Michael's tasting notes from this year's giant showing of the latest vintage at the VDP...
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Julia samples some great Rheinhessen, and now Mosel, wines from cask, in situ. Please note that many of these wines...
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Lucky Michael wallows in another vertical of a German icon. He plans to be at our second Riesling Night in...
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See also Wiesbaden 2018 – reds and Silvaner GGs and this guide to our coverage of Germany 2017. In this...
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We have recently been discussing in this thread on our forum the contentious subject of when tasting notes on Grosse...
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In the 1970s the Rheinhessen used to churn out an endless stream of Liebfraumilch. It now seems to have a...
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Jochen Dreissigacker is a particularly high achiever among the new generation of winemakers in the Rheinhessen (about whom Michael will...
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We present this magnificent coda to our dry Riesling week last week. German wine, or to be precise Riesling, is...
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This article, devoted mainly to the latest vintage tasted in the cellars of the superstar of Rheinhessen, kicks off a...
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See also The picture tells the tale – Rheinhessen 2016. For full details of our coverage of the excellent 2016...
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For full details of our coverage of the excellent 2016 vintage in Germany, see this guide. Taken on 13 October...
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Annegret Reh-Gartner is not the only prominent German vintner we have lost recently. Fritz Hasselbach of the renowned Rheinhessen wine...
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The time when the vast region of Rheinhessen was a sleeping giant with untapped potential has long gone. Today the...
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A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. As our taxi turned into the small village of...
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