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German 2011s continued

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These notes, all taken at a tasting organised by Justerini & Brooks in London last September, are a post scriptum to our extensive coverage of Germany 2011, catalogued in Germany 2011 – the guide. In addition to the 2011s, there were a few older wines, which provided a good contrast, and context, for the young ones.

As at the Howard Ripley tasting in June, I concentrated on wines that our German correspondent Michael Schmidt had not tasted at the Mainz Weinbörse tastings.

The timing of this tasting gave most of the wines a few more months in bottle...