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ADVERTORIAL “Fascinating tasting, I was especially wowed with ’s the value” Roger Top 50 Wines Jones

Wines of Germany unveils 50 winning wines for 2014

The Judges from left to right: Joe Wadsack, Matt Walls, Oliver McSwiney, Anne Krebiehl and Roger Jones.

ased on the incredible quality, value and WHITE WINES £5-8 Naegele Fass Nr. Schloss Johannisberg GH von Prinz Riesling trocken 2012 98 2013 Mumm Riesling Trocken 2012 diversity of styles in Kendermanns Special Edition Riesling 2013 Pfalz Rheingau www.thewineryuk.com “ the line-up, there is a www.naegele-wein.de www.schloss-johannisberg.de Importer: The Winery Pfalz very exciting future for www.reh-kendermann.de Importer: Direct Wines Ltd Importer: Copestick Murray Youthful and rich with hint of spice these modern, new wave Importer: Kendermann Prosaic rather than poetic with Dry, fragrant and textural with !"#$%&"'($)"&*+, German wines” says Joe Wadsack, who Great value. Zingy and fresh. lovely texture and spice. great minerality. RRP: £13.99 B RRP: £10.99 RRP: £9-11 chaired the wine selection panel. Clean and linear with hints of Wadsack was joined by Anne apple and pear. Krebiehl, Roger Jones, Matt Walls RRP: £7.49 Winzer von Erbach Riesling Walter Riesling Trocken 2012 trocken 2011 and Oliver McSwiney, who following Leitz Eins Zwei Dry Riesling 2013 Rheingau a rigorous blind tasting held in April Peter & Peter Riesling aus der Steillage 2013 Rheingau www.thewineryuk.com www.winzer-von-erbach.de selected the Top 50 German Wines. Mosel www.leitz-wein.de Importer: The Winery Importer: Wein Forum The wines entered into the competition www.zgm.de Importer: ABS Wine Agencies Clean, modern, lively and vibrant Wonderful nose. Dry, but ripe, were very impressive, representing the Importer: ZGM Clean, fresh, focused and with with great fruit and balance. -.*/&0.*1$2344&)/$54.&2$6&2+$!$+&"2$05$ !"#$%&$%'()*+,#)-#)'#.)/%#-(%#0$'-#&%1# personality. RRP: £9.99 clementine. key wine producing regions as well RRP: £13.49-14.49 RRP: £12.00 as highlighting the exciting range of strokes in a cool swimming pool. RRP: £7.49 quality styles and varietals now being Domdechant Werner’sches produced by the new generation of Hochheimer Riesling Classic !"#$%&'"$%()*("+,-.(/)0/"(/) German winemakers. Devil’s Rock Riesling 2013 WG Niersteiner Von Reben 2012 DOM Riesling feinherb 2012 The Top 50 line up showcases wines Pfalz Riesling 2013 Rheingau Mosel which over deliver on value, quality www.binderer.com Rheinhessen www.domdechantwerner.com 11156)'7("%8)7(%1%)*+9%-%$-$)%$5 www.laithwaites.co.uk Importer: Direct Wines de !"#$%!&'()$!*$!++$,)-./$,'-"*01$$23$'4$*5/$ Importer: PLB Importer: Direct Wines Classic, full and aromatic with Importer: Boutinot Top 50 wines are currently imported Vivid, concentrated and focused 1)-(#$%2.#3)%'.)*+#4%0*)-)"*5 Elegant, with lovely, lingering fruit. honey and lemon tones. Off dry with luscious fruit and nice to the UK and the other 15 are seeking RRP: £6.99 RRP: £9.99 RRP: £12.99 minerality. Beautifully balanced. representation. RRP: £11-12

WHITE WINES £8-15 Anne Krebiehl Peter-Jakob Kühn Jacobus Wittmann Fass 68 Dry Riesling Fritz Willi Riesling 2012 Riffel Riesling trocken 2013 Riesling trocken 2012 2012 Mosel on when The Top Rheinhessen Rheingau Rheinhessen www.friedrichwilhelmgymnasium. www.weingut-riffel.de www.thewineryuk.com www.weingutwittmann.de de 50 is announced Importer: The Winery Importer: The Winery Importer: Averys Importer: Boutinot Concentrated with nice ripeness Some super development, great Fresh and zesty with clean fruit Utterly delicious. Off dry, with “everyone will be and minerality. weight and concentration. and good length. hints of peach and nectarine. in for a treat” RRP: £13.99 RRP: £14.99 RRP: £13.99 RRP: £11-12 THE Joe Wadsack is a leading Anne Krebiehl Roger Jones Matt Walls, author Oliver McSwiney authority in wine having worked is a wine educator, owns the Michelin of the book ‘Drink is Group Sommelier PANEL in all sectors of the wine trade MW student, starred restaurant Me’, is a contributor at Investhor Ltd. His – buying, educating, writing, writer, expert in The Harrow at to a number of work at Kensington presenting and judging. As an German wines and Little Bedwyn, wine publications, Wine Rooms won enthusiastic ambassador for also a passionate is a wine writer competition judge and them top restaurant in www.winesofgermany.co.uk German Riesling, Joe is also one Riesling Revivalist. and judges in a makes up the trio of Wines of Germany’s of Wines of Germany’s Riesling number of wine Riesling Revivalists. 26$7!80$'4$9-/0+-":$ Revivalists. competitions. promotion 2012.

Balthasar Ress Hattenheimer Müller-Catoir Haardter Johann Maximilian Schloss Schönborn Erbacher Deep Roots Riesling 2013 Groebe Riesling Alte Reben 2012 Schützenhaus Riesling Kabinett Bürgergarten Riesling Spätlese 2011 Marcobrunn Riesling Kabinett Rheinhessen Rheinhessen 2012 VDP Erste Lage 2012 Rheingau 2011 [email protected] www.weingut-k-f-groebe.de Rheingau Pfalz www.virginwines.com Rheingau =&/+1$/0@9-3A$6&2+$*0@3$/+!-B($ [email protected] www.balthasar-ress.de www.mueller-catoir.de Importer: Virgin Wines www.schoenborn.de characters and a hint of tropical Luscious, with wonderful mandarin Importer: Berkmann Importer: Wine Networks 73-&/!231$804!-1$943/&*3,$$:032&/, Importer: Corney and Barrow fruit. and bergamot characters. A blend Off dry, balanced, with nice weight :+3"0@3"!-,$=&/+1$40."#3#$ RRP: £15.99 Medium sweet, clean, precise and of orange and green citrus fruits. and raciness. with amazing honey, lemon and elegant with hints of pear and RRP: £14.99 butterscotch tones. +0"3($!"#$!$43543*+&"'$)"&*+,$ RRP: £70 RRP: £14.95 Stefan Meyer Riesling 2013 WHITE WINES £15+ Thörle Hölle Spätburgunder Pfalz Schumann-Nägler Riesling 2013 Schloss Neuweier Goldenes Loch 2011 www.meyer-rhodt.de Rheingau Grosses Gewächs 2012 Rheinhessen [email protected] schumann-naegler.de Burg Ravensburg Husarenkappe www.thoerle-wein.de Dönnhoff Riesling Oberhauser For acid fans, this is a hard core [email protected] www.thewineryuk.com Riesling 2011 Importer: Carte Blanche Wines Brücke Spätlese 2012 winner. A rugby player rather than A powerful wine with aniseed Importer: The Winery Baden Good, soft perfumed nose. Long an ice skater. aromas and candied peel on the Fabulous. Modern, dry and vibrant www.burg-ravensburg.de !"#$54.&2$)--3#$6&2+$!$+&"2$05$*9&/3, www.doennhoff.de palate and an amazing long and 6&2+$'43!2$#3)"&2&0"$05$8!>0.4,$ Importer: Weinhaus RRP: £35 Importer: ABS Wine Agencies ?!-!"/3#$)"&*+, RRP: £36.99 Fantastic concentration and dusty Classic, sweet, rich with limes and @&"34!-*,$$=&/+$!"#$>0-.92.0.*$ Nelles Ruber Spätburgunder honey and an amazing refreshing Landgraf Riesling 2012 with a silky texture. 2011 )"&*+,$ Rheinhessen Durbacher Spätburgunder 2011 Prinz von Hessen Estate Riesling RRP: £24.50 RRP: £22.00 12$%#34(.)5675 www.weingut-landgraf.de Baden Rheingau www.weinhaus-nelles.de [email protected] johanneshimmelsbach@ www.prinz-von-hessen.de Importer: The Winery Phenomenal. A real delight, durbacher.de Importer: Bibendum Enticing spice and rose petals on rich and ripe, this dry wine has a www.durbacher.de Gorgeous. Dry, super fresh RED WINES the nose. Complex with some SEEKING REPRESENTATION fantastic texture. Organic. Delicious, youthful and crunchy with delicate peach and lemon Villa Wolf Pinot Noir 2012 savoury characters and a beautiful Werther Windisch 2012 fruit. Fresh and bright. 8!>0.4*, Pfalz texture. Rheinhessen RRP: £18.99 www.jlwolf.com RRP: £18.99 www.werther-windisch.de Importer: ABS Wine Agencies Heitlinger Königsbecher [email protected] Cisterzienser Weingut Michel Peter Kriechel Spätburgunder Studert-Prüm Bernkasteler =&93$54.&21$/+344&3*$!"#$ Spätburgunder 2009 Wonderful expression of Silvaner. Riesling Eminenz 2012 2011 Graben Riesling Kabinett trocken strawberries with a touch of Baden Succulent, zesty, slender and Rheinhessen Ahr 2012 earthiness. Great value. www.weingut-heitlinger.de poised. www.cisterzienser-weingut.de www.weingut-kriechel.de Mosel RRP: £10.49 - £11.49 Importer: Weinhaus [email protected] [email protected] www.thewineryuk.com ;3-53-($ Great weight and concentration. Alive with delicous fruit. Sexiness Importer: The Winery texture with hints of red cherry, Apples, lemon and some on legs. Elegant, dry and stylish with lovely Becker-Landgraf Gau- *052$4+.?!4?$!"#$24.583, Bergdolt-Reif und Nett minerality. minerality. Odernheimer Spätburgunder RRP: £24.50 Weissburgunder 2012 RRP: £16.99 2012 Kaiserstühler Winzerverein Pfalz Martin Waßmer Spätburgunder Rheinhessen Oberrotweil Blauer www.weingut-brn.de Philipp Bassler Riesling trocken 2011 Kloster Eberbach Wiesbadener www.weingut-beckerlandgraf.de Spätburgunder 2009 [email protected] 2012 Baden Neroberg “Crescentia” Riesling Importer: The Winery Baden A benchmark of its type. It shows Pfalz www.weingut-wassmer.de trocken 2012 ;!>0.4($"0*3$6&2+$24.583*,$$=&93$ www.winzerverein-oberrotweil.de what Pinot Bianco can do. Intense wg-weinbiet.de [email protected] Rheingau fruit and lovely intensity. Importer: Weinhaus and rich with some maturity. [email protected] Elegant, honest with good fruit www.kloster-eberbach.de RRP: £17.99 Dark, rich and complex with Savoury, dense, dry and serious. and multi-dimensional. Importer: Boutinot plump, juicy fruit and savoury C+&*$&*$D!@3*$E0"#$&"$=&3*-&"'$ Lovely precision with gentle, characters. 504@,$$=&/+$6&2+0.2$?3&"'$5!2, RRP: £22.50 soft fruit along with honey and Stodden Herrenberg K. & K.Dautermann Grauer beeswax. Spätburgunder Grosses Gewächs SWEET WINES Burgunder 2013 Braunewell Selection RRP: £15-16 2011 Spätburgunder 2011 Freiherr von und zu Franckenstein Rheinhessen Ahr August Ziegler Riesling Spätlese Rheinhessen Traminer Spätlese 2012 www.dautermannwein.de www.stodden.de 2012 www.weingut-braunewell.de Flick Hölle Riesling trocken 2012 Baden [email protected] Importer: ABS Wine Agencies Pfalz [email protected] Rheingau www.weingut-von-franckenstein. Great focus and balance with Fresh and herbaceous. Delicious www.august-ziegler.de Soft with lovely cherries and 11158)7/:1%)*54%# de delicious pear characteristics. /+344($8!>0.4*$6&2+$!$+&"2$05$ [email protected] brambles which linger on Importer: The Winery Importer: Weinhaus raspberry and a sprinkling of Off dry, juicy and luscious with 2+3$)"&*+,$=&93$2!""&"*$!##$ Gorgeous nose of jasmine and Off dry style which is pure and pepper. some wonderful development of complexity. satsuma. Fresh, weighty and balanced with tones of rose and RRP: £38.49 - £41 8!>0.4, complex. peach. RRP: £18.99 RRP: £15.99