Germany's 2008s – Part 1

See also Germany's 2008s – Part 2, Germany's 2008s – Part 3 and my overview of the vintage.

I know many of you are impatient to read tasting notes on the latest German vintage as soon as possible, so we are publishing this collection of 320+ notes taken in Germany and London between late April and last week as soon as possible – before Howard Ripley's usually very interesting tasting to be held tomorrow.  I will add notes from that tasting (which usually includes such growers as Johannishof, Georg Mosbacher, Willi Schaefer, Phillip Veser, Vollenweider, Robert Weil and...