German 2012/11s tasted in London

Our German wine specialist Michael Schmidt has been doing a magnificent job tasting his way through the latest wine releases in Germany. His next tranche will be the 2012 Grosse Gewächse of Mosel and Nahe and will follow that with a set of reviews of 2011 reds. You can track what has already been published via this guide to 2012 German coverage and this guide to 2011 German coverage.

But here in London we have recently seen two major offers of top-quality German wines, from Justerini & Brooks and Howard Ripley (which also includes a handful of Swiss reds)...