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A British assault on fine German Pinots

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If you put Spätburgunder in our search box (choosing the 'Everything else' option), you will find a plethora of articles. But there are even more because Germany's answers to red burgundy go under both this name and Pinot Noir; try searching for 'German Pinot Noir', and see specifically the relatively recent German Pinotland. Living in the Ahr Valley, our German specialist Michael Schmidt was convinced of the quality of German Pinot ages ago. I was probably a more recent convert, with the 2011 tasting described in German Pinot Noir does itself...