By coincidence, I happened to go to an excellent Circle of Wine Writers tasting yesterday centred on five young mould-breaking German wine producers of whom one was Hanspeter Ziereisen, the Baden Syrah producer to whom the Currins alerted us only this week, and Schnaitmann, about whom Steve Dutton wrote last month with similar enthusiasm.
Ziereisen does indeed look more like a carpenter than a wine producer, and I thought the Syrah was seriously good. My notes on all the wines we tasted other than the 2005s which will be incorporated into my forthcoming report on 2005 German wines...