Bianka and Daniel Schmitt, making impressive natural wines in Rheinhessen, Germany
Website: https://biankaunddaniel.de/ I tasted these wines with Bianka Schmitt at the VinNatur festival in Paris, November 2025. The winery has
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The big bottle party at the Cool Climate Wine Summit: a selection of interesting wines from Poland, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Austria
I’m at the Cool Climate Wine Summit in Copenhagen, and this year the opening evening was in the form of
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Tasting some innovative projects from Luxembourg and Germany – Kox, Dope, Piri Naturel, Kraemer and Salutaris
This was an informal tasting held after the Porto Protocol Living Vineyards day at Staffelterhof in the Mosel. Some of
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At Staffelter Hof in the Mosel, Jan-Matthias Klein has taken a bet on resistant varieties, vitisforestry and natural wine, and it’s working out
As part of the Porto Protocol Living Vineyards tour 2025, I visited Staffelter Hof, a winery looking to produce a
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Bassermann-Jordan: tasting the wines from this historic Pfalz estate, now farming organically
Geheimer Rat von Bassermann-Jordan, Pfalz, Germany Website: https://www.bassermann-jordan.de/ Bassermann-Jordan is an organic producer based in Diedersheim in Germany’s Pfalz wine
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A mini-Riesling study: Australia, New Zealand, Germany
These four samples were at hand, so I did a taste and compare. Riesling is such a singular variety. I
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Krone Assmannshausen, Rheingau: some of Germany’s best Spätburgunders
Website: www.weingut-krone.de Weingut Krone Assmannshausen is a small Pinot-only winery made from a 3.7 hectare vineyard that used to
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The wines of Enderle & Moll from Germany’s Baden region
There’s a lot of buzz about Enderle & Moll, a project headed up by Florian Moll, focusing largely on Pinot
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Weingut Thörle: Impressive new wave German wines from this Rheinhessen estate
Website: www.thorle-wein.de Thörle is a family domaine based in Saulheim in the Rheinhessen, and since 2006 it has been run
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Exploring Blaufränkisch at the Blue Frank Think Tank (1) the presentations
Sevnica, Slovenia was the setting for this conference on Blaufrankisch, an interesting grape variety that looks to have a promising
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