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Grosse Gewächse 2007

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German wine specialist Michael Schmidt very kindly offered to share with us his tasting notes taken at the official launch of the top German wines of the 2007 vintage in Wiesbaden at the end of last month. He has been attending this event since its inception four or five years ago and comments:     

'If you find my marks rather generous I can only say that 2007 has lived up to expectations and has turned out to be a truly great vintage, by far the best since the Grosse Gewächse have been introduced. Whereas the challenges of 2006 sorted the...