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Dr. ZenZen Pinot Noir

August 3, 2011
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This is the second Mosel Pinot Noir I’ve had in as many weeks, and although the other was a rosé, there’s definitely a good deal shared between them. A note on the region, first; the Moselle river flows through France, Luxembourg and Germany before joining the Rhine at Koblenz – just upstream from Valwig, the [...]

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A German Red Wine – Lemberger 2009 from Furst Hohenlohr Oehringen

June 8, 2011
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I was in Germany not long ago on a trip to find out a bit more about the wines of southern Germany. Germany is not all Riesling, all the time. They have been making red wines for centuries but as production is quite limited and thus small, it can be difficult to find these wines [...]

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Villa Wolf Pinot Noir, from Vineyards of Sherborne

April 18, 2011
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It’s Pinot Noir, it’s German, and – for some reason – it’s not called Blauburgunder or Spätburgunder as I’ve been lead to expect. Is this a nod to the world market – the label is so simple one could hardly believe it German, regardless of the words – or merely an indication of a geographical proximity [...]

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WSET Diaries – Part 2: France, France, France, France, & Germany

March 9, 2011
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Read Part 1 on our sister site WhiteWine.co.uk. Week two! We sit down in the room next door, surrounded by enormous, framed black and white pictures of U2. (Nobody knows why – but an NHS course in ‘our’ classroom.) I’ve done 30-odd pages of text book reading homework on grape types, and have 2 hours on [...]

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