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Free for all A shorter version of this article is published by the Financial Times . See also our tasting notes on 81...

Free for all Germany's VDP association of top wine growers recently published this list of superior vineyard sites and they are currently working...

Tasting articles The 36 wines described below, 20 of them 2015s, are wines Julia and I have tasted recently in London –...

Free for all Below is a list of all the articles we have published so far on the excellent 2016 vintage in Germany...

Tasting articles For full details of our coverage of the excellent 2016 vintage in Germany, see this guide. Julia writes As Michael...

Tasting articles For full details of our coverage of the excellent 2016 vintage in Germany, see this guide. Founded in 1899, the...

Wines of the week From €8.50, £12.50, 129 Swedish Krone, 18.50 Swiss francs, $21.98 Find this wine At this time of year as temperatures...

Inside information Early budding followed by very cold nights – set to continue this week – has left many European vines susceptible...

Tasting articles Our German specialist Michael Schmidt is a notable fan of German Pinot Noir, or Spätburgunder, so I thought I owed...

Tasting articles Thanks to fortuitous timing, last month I had the opportunity to taste wines from two German wine specialists: importer Iris...

Tasting articles See also part 1 and part 2 of Michael's Franken trilogy. First mention of the hamlet of Castell can be...

Tasting articles See also part 1 of Michael's trilogy, 700 years of the Bürgerspital. There is no doubt that the Würzburger Stein...

Tasting articles See also part 2 of Michael's Franken trilogy. The Hospice de Beaune, founded in 1443 by the then Chancellor of...

Wines of the week From £6.98, €7.85, 19.50 Swiss francs Find the Bauer Sauvignon Find the Kalkstein Sauvignon Find the Wageck Sauvignon Yesterday, in...

Tasting articles I don't know about you but Sauvignon Blanc is not a grape variety I readily associate with Germany. It's not...

Tasting articles See also Michael's 2016 German vintage report, published yesterday. In the aftermath of our comprehensive and unmatched coverage of Germany's...