Germany's 2008s – Part 2

See this complete guide to our hundreds of tasting notes. 

On Wednesday I published tasting notes on more than 320 German 2008s, promising to supplement them with at least one more tranche and probably more. Below are my 50-odd tasting notes from Howard Ripley’s presentation of the 2008 German vintage, where I was particularly impressed by the wines produced by Barbara and Johannes Selbach-Oster shown here.  These are supplemented by about 75 further tasting notes from Michael Schmidt (MS), who tasted the 2008s at the Bernkasteler Ring from Mosel producers who export to the UK but whose wines I...