Category: Germany
Germany
After my wonderful Haag offering earlier tonight the partner wanted to compete. He manifestly out-performs me with this wine. It has been far too long since I had a …
Germany
Fritz Haag wines can be such beautiful entities of pure, intense loveliness; this really is a goodie. Riesling Auslese Braueberger Juffer-Sonnenuhr Fuder 10 1999, Fritz Haag Wow what a …
Germany
Armin Diel is known amongst ageing Oxford wine tasting-types for two reasons. Firstly, when playing Herr Donnhoff at croquet the afternoon before their joint tasting he cheated in a …
Alsace
Last night I was very happy to host a fellow wine blogger (Torsten from Winerambler) and my old chum ‘The Kid’ Peter for a Riesling and Pinot Noir-themed tasting. …
Germany
I was not going to bother writing up this utterly delicious wine, but Peter ‘The Kid’ Palmer tells me I must. “People need to know”, he says. Riesling Auslese …
Germany
After me bad-mouthing this producer (possibly un-necessarily, we’ll see if/when the wines come good) my chum Jeremy gave us this to try. Riesling Kabinett Trabener Gaispfad 2007, Weiser-Kunstler This …
Germany
Sometimes Dr Loosen wines just seem a bit simple, sometimes they seem like they will not age, but when you buy the right stuff in the right vintages by …
Germany
Weingut Fritz Haag make extremely distinctive wines, which I hope I do a good job of blind tasting. They have a brilliant purity of expression which, whilst you can …
Germany
And this is a goodie, alright. Riesling Spatlese Kiedrich Grafenberg 2007, Weingut Robert Weil A wonderful, precisely-defined nose of citrus fruit and minerality. This smells charged with life, a …
Alsace
Earlier tonight we ate reasonably well and had some truly mind-bendingly good wines. This is what life is all about. One wine, however, disappointed. Shame, Olivier Humbrecht, shame! Brut …