For full details of our coverage of the excellent 2016 vintage in Germany, see this guide.
Julia writes As Michael noted in Germany 2016 – disaster averted, ‘The 2016 vintage in Germany was an emotional roller-coaster ride for growers, but most of them emerged from it smelling of roses.’ Rheinhessen’s Klaus Peter Keller described the first six months of the 2016 growing season in his region as ‘an emotional hell ride’, with heavy rain in May and June after a mild winter, but wrote in his harvest report earlier this year that he was elated by the quality...