New world Riesling: contenders or pretenders?
Old World Riesling devotee Freddy Price picks out the unlikely New World regions and names to challenge the grape’s spiritual home
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Healthy VDP auctions show strength of top German estates
Over €5000 was bid for a bottle of 1949 Rauenthaler Baiken Riesling Trockenbeerenauslese, and magnums of a 2007 Egon Müller Riesling went for over €1000 at the VDP annual auctions in Germany at the end of last month
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German wine labelling made simple
The authorities may have made a mess of making German wine labels accessible, but FREDDY PRICE insists it’s easy when you know how
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Alsace's wines: All Sweetness and Light?
FREDDY PRICE investigates whether a warmer climate and the trend towards biodynamic farming is changing the character of Alsace’s wines for the better
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The Rheinhessen Revolution
The origin of sickly sweet Liebfraumilch, Rheinhessen is a dirty word for most wine lovers. But things have changed, says Freddy Price, who urges us to be more open-minded
