Tasting articles Germany 2023 – Rheingau, Rheinhessen, Pfalz and Franken Reviews of even more of the 2023s shown at this year's Mainzer... 24 May 2024 Paula Sidore Jancis Robinson
Tasting articles GG releases in 2022 – Riesling part 1 Newly released Riesling Grosse Gewächse from the Mosel, Mittelrhein, Nahe, Franken and... 22 Sep 2022 Paula Sidore Tamlyn Currin Julia Harding MW
Tasting articles WineBarn Germans 2022 The WineBarn's annual portfolio tasting throws up some some real gems, extremely... 12 Jul 2022 Tamlyn Currin
Tasting articles The return of the Weinbörse, part 2 After a day wallowing in red wines (see The return of the... 1 Jun 2022 Paula Sidore
Tasting articles More current Germans, part 2 27 February 2022 Eva Fricke's more serious 2020s have at last been... 24 Sep 2021 Jancis Robinson
Free for all WWC21 – Creutz, Franken Entrant Ulrich Hagenmeyer writes in, 'The article is named "Creutz -- Buried... 19 Aug 2021 Guest contributor
Tasting articles Franken Silvaner and Ahr Spätburgunder This may be Michael's last collection of tasting notes on 2020's GG... 8 Jan 2021 Michael Schmidt
Tasting articles Michael's 2019 GGs – Pfalz, Württemberg and Franken The last of Michael's three collections of tasting notes on (mostly) 2019... 12 Oct 2020 Michael Schmidt
Free for all WWC20 – 2Naturkinder, Franken Introducing his entry to our 2020 writing competition, Londoner David Frail writes... 26 Aug 2020 Guest contributor
Tasting articles German 2020 releases – Franken The last of this mammoth series based on Michael's pandemic-inspired tastings at... 18 Aug 2020 Michael Schmidt
Tasting articles Howard Ripley 2019 Germans part 2 See also yesterday's part 1 with its tasting notes on 100 wines... 8 Jul 2020 Jancis Robinson
Tasting articles GGs in Wiesbaden 2019 part 3 – Franken, Pfalz and Rheinhessen The final part of Michael’s report from three days of valiant tasting... 8 Oct 2019 Michael Schmidt
Wines of the week Benedikt Baltes, Buntsandstein Spätburgunder 2015 Franken From €14.50, £16.60 (per bottle if you buy a case of 6)... 28 Sep 2018 Tamlyn Currin
Tasting articles Ludwig Knoll – a most unusual Franken estate As Michael's many tasting notes on this year's crop of 2017 Grosse... 11 Sep 2018 Michael Schmidt
Wines of the week Wirsching Silvaner trocken 2016 Franken From €6.80, $13.99, £12.75 Find this wine The other weekend we opened... 30 Mar 2018 Tamlyn Currin
Tasting articles VDP 2016s part 2 – Nahe and Franken For full details of our coverage of the excellent 2016 vintage in... 21 Jun 2017 Michael Schmidt