Germany once again wowed the panel. It was the only country where more than 20% of the wines received either a
Gold or Silver medal.
Simon Woods, WINE International, November 2005
Germany has always made some of the world’s greatest white wines and I, for one, am a great Riesling fan [...]
Many high-end, opinion-forming restaurants are seeing excellent sales of German wines. Caterer & Hotelkeeper, 3 November 2005
I am not sure at what point exactly during my first ever trip to Germany I realised just what I had been missing
out on […] Maybe it was when sampling yet another fabulous wine of the region.
Janette Atkin, Leicester Mercury, 12 November 2005
I have visited the Saar several times and met the leading winemakers. I have come away astounded by the overall quality
of this little-known, often misunderstood region, convinced it is producing some of the world’s greatest yet least-appreciated
whites.
William Echikson, Wall Street Journal Europe, 18 November 2005
A stunning Renaissance is now well underway…sales of German wine priced above £6 have grown dramatically…British consumers
have truly begun to take German wine seriously.
Arifa Akbar, The Independent, 3 December 2005
Trips
PROWEIN
As part of our ongoing commitment to wine writers, we are currently organising trips for Christian Davis, editor of Harper’s Wine & Spirit Weekly and journalist Freddy Price to ProWein, Germany’s major International Trade Fair for Wines and Spirits, which will be held in Düsseldorf from the 26 – 28 March 2006.
Christian Davis will be combining his trip to the fair with visits to wineries in the Mosel and Pfalz regions with the aim of writing a feature on German wine for Harper’s later in the year. Freddy Price will write an article as a result of his trip in the Circle of Wine Writers Update later this year.
SOMMELIER TRIP TO MAINZER WEINBORSE
We have invited sommeliers to Germany from the 23-26 April 2006 to visit Mainzer Weinborse, the prestigious annual German wine fair, as well as several estates across the Rheingau and Nahe regions.
This will be an international trip made up of sommeliers from the UK and the US. Sommeliers from the following restaurants have registered their interest in attending: Sharrow Bay, The Atrium, The Blueprint Café, Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park, La Trompette, Harvey Nichols, Hotel du Vin, Nobu, The Halkin, Petrus, The Cinnamon Club, The Ritz Hotel, Gordon Ramsey Restaurants, Hotel du Vin and The Atrium, Edinburgh. We will be selecting at least six from this list to attend.
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