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New GG releases in 2025 – reds
In a perilous vintage, Germany’s best 2023 Spätburgunders are a testament to nerve and precision in the vineyard. Also see Paula’s report on new GG Riesling releases and other GG...
Paula Redes Sidore
Monday 20 October 2025
• 7 min read
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New GG releases in 2025 – Chardonnay, Silvaner and Weissburgunder
Paula Redes Sidore
Tuesday 14 October 2025
• 5 min read
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New GG releases in 2025 – Riesling
Paula Redes Sidore
Tuesday 7 October 2025
• 12 min read
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Paula Sidore reports from the annual tasting of Grosse Gewächse in Wiesbaden that it’s time we all paid more attention...
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The Riesling report for 2022 and 2023 Grosse Gewächse wines from VDP member estates shown this year in Wiesbaden. Two...
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Reviews of even more of the 2023s shown at this year's Mainzer Weinbörse. Above, Daniel Wagner is pictured at harvest...
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German growers celebrate vintage 2023 while courting concerns for 2024. See also 2024 Mainzer Weinbörse – a celebration of German...
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In the first part of our coverage of this year’s Mainzer Weinbörse , Jancis explains why it was a cause...
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To follow up on yesterday’s Riesling GG reviews, Paula covers the best of the rest, especially highlighting Spatbürgunder and Silvaner...
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Riesling, Riesling everywhere … but especially in Wiesbaden at last month’s annual VDP GG premiere. Come back tomorrow to read...
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At the Mainzer Weinbörse, Paula confronts the mystery of the upside-down vintage.
The best mystery novels, viewed in retrospect, make...
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In the last instalment – with lots of high scores! – of their reports from this year's showing of the...
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Above, the Hoheleite Grosse Lage in Rödelsee, source of Paul Weltner's Silvaner that so enticed Paula. See also the reviews...
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Some practical advice and many a recommended dry-to-dryish German white. A shorter version of this article is published by the...
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Above, colourful strata in the Uhlen Roth Lay Grosse Lage in Winningen, where Heymann-Löwenstein cultivate four parcels, some of them...
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Above are Horst and his daughter Sandra Sauer, whose wines scored so highly below.
Julia writes While Michael has been...
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For the background to this comprehensive review of yet another promising vintage, see part 1 published yesterday and today's account...
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You didn't think a little thing like a global pandemic would prevent us from providing our usual German coverage, did...
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Germany's wine regulations are set to change … in 2026. But expect to see much less Piesporter Michelsberg then.
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