German 2004s – what to buy

Charlotte Blofeld of London writes: Happy summer holidays. We've just got back from a hot rose-soaked week in Sicily.  Could you be kind and offer some guidance through the long list of German wines you recently published your tasting notes on – at all price and sweetness levels?  I so enjoy the wines when presented with them (for example when I went to a very enjoyable and very hot tasting of Howard Ripley wines recently), but find the names so confusing, that making a choice unnerves me, and so would be grateful for a short list if you had the...