German wines – quality, pleasure and value
Friday 18 April 2025
• 13 min read

A tasting of current releases shown by UK importer/retailer Howard Ripley demonstrated this to a T. Above, the book-lined tasting room in London's Royal Society of Chemistry, before the rush.
Julia writes While the 2023 vintage dominated this tasting of white, red, dry and not-so-dry wines, there were also plenty of wines from 2022 and 2021. Christine Huff of Weingut Fritz Ekkehard Huff in Rheinhessen was not the only producer at the tasting to tell me that they prefer to keep their wines until they are ready to drink. However, so many of the wines I tasted, while delicious...
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