Germany

Tasting articles This great tasting, shown in two short films in Battle of the white giants – video , pitted the best...

Tasting articles Last Thursday night, the night before the breakfast filmed in German opener, I took part in a thoroughly revealing blind...

Tasting articles On a cold but sunny weekend in March, I found myself in the tranquil seclusion of the historic chambers of...

Free for all Iris Ellmann of The WineBarn is one of modern German wine’s most insistent importers. (I say this as the recipient...

Tasting articles All these wines made from Pinot Noir grown in Germany were tasted at the VDP Grosses Gewächs preview at the...

Wines of the week It is always thrilling to come across an exciting new producer and Germany seems particularly well-endowed in this respect. Alexandra...

Free for all You may remember my account of a brief visit to Toronto last December where everyone I met seemed to be...

Tasting articles I am indebted to purple pager Sigi Hiss for bringing these spectacular wines to my attention. See also Green light...

Tasting articles Jancis previewed Iris Ellman’s WineBarn annual London tasting because it was open to private customers in the evening session as...

Tasting articles The following fills in the gaps in my coverage of Johannes’ Leitz’s wines, dry(ish) ones first and then listed in...

Free for all These are the possible ways to access my nearly 430 2005 German tasting notes. i Complete alphabetical list of all...

Travel tips Purple pager Trevor Johnston asked for recommendations, and here are a few, from a friendly source in Munich: There are...

Free for all I finally met Terry Theise, gifted specialist importer of German and Austrian wines and growers' champagnes, in May. He had...

Don't quote me I’ve spent much of this week and last tasting German wine and am very excited about the 2005s and increasingly...

Tasting articles By coincidence, I happened to go to an excellent Circle of Wine Writers tasting yesterday centred on five young mould-breaking...

Tasting articles As many of you may know, the nether parts of the Rheinhessen in Germany, far from the Rhine with its...