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Advertisement feature Riesling Grey Riesling 2016 50 degrees Riesling 2015 Asia de Cuba 2015 GERMANY’S Slate 2015 Mosel Rheingau Rheinhessen TOP 50 Mosel 100% Riesling 100% Riesling 100% Riesling 100% Riesling WINERY: Winter WINERY: JWG Johannisberger WINERY: Hiestand WINERY: Dr Loosen STYLE: Dry Weinvertrieb STYLE: Medium dry IMPORTED RIESLING STYLE: Dry IMPORTER: SWIG STYLE: Dry IMPORTER: Virgin Wines £5-£10 IMPORTER: Awin Barratt STOCKIST: SWIG, Oxford IMPORTER: STOCKIST: Virgin Wines Siegel Wine Agencies Wine Company, Good Copestick Murray RRP: £11.99 Kendermanns Special STOCKIST: Waitrose Wine Shop STOCKIST: Butcher & Well-balanced, full- Edition Riesling 2016 RRP: £9.99 RRP: £14.50 Grill, Latitude Wine, Wine flavoured and off-dry Pfalz A luscious, full-flavoured Full-flavoured, balanced Cellar IoM with luscious stone fruit THE PANEL 100% Riesling wine with bright and clean and vibrant with clean RRP: £11.00 on the palate. A lively, Journalist, author and broadcaster, WINERY: Reh Kendermann fruit. Notes of sea air. citrus fruit. Flavours of Pink grapefruit and a fresh and zingy wine. Jane writes for a whole host of UK STYLE: Dry peach and lemon curd. touch of tropical fruit. publications (including Restaurant IMPORTER: Waitrose The Society’s Saar Stoney, flinty and Mülheimer Sonnenlay magazine and Stylist) and is a wine STOCKIST: Waitrose Riesling 2014 Peter & Ulrich Griebeler pleasant savoury notes. Riesling Zeppelin 2016 expert on BBC1 Saturday Kitchen Live. RRP: £7.49 Mosel Riesling 2016 Mosel She also writes for Wine & Food, was A fresh, attractive nose 100% Riesling Mosel Riesling Spätlese 2014 100% Riesling awarded International Wine & Spirit with a floral, salty palate. WINERY: Reichsgraf 100% Riesling Mosel WINERY: Max Ferdinand Richter Competition Communicator of the Year A good balance of fruit von Kesselstatt WINERY: Heinrichshof 100% Riesling STYLE: Medium dry 2014 and is a member of The Wine Gang. and a luscious, full STYLE: Medium dry STYLE: Dry WINERY: Ulrich Langguth IMPORTER: Charles Taylor Wines Jane Parkinson, journalist and flavour. IMPORTER: The Wine IMPORTER: Majestic/Flint STYLE: Medium dry STOCKIST: Laithwaite’s, broadcaster Society STOCKIST: Majestic IMPORTER: Virgin Wines Drinkmonger, Latitude Wine, City I Heart Riesling 2015 STOCKIST: The Wine RRP: £11.99 STOCKIST: Virgin Wines Wine Collection, Prohibition, Starting her wine career at Hardys’ Rheinhessen Society Grapefruit, passion RRP: £14.99 Park and Bridge, Martinez, Canberra winery, Kamberra, and then 100% Riesling RRP: £9.50 fruit and soft citrus fruit. Tropical, fruity nose with Whalley Wine Shop, Davis, moving to Europe to work for Syndicat WINERY: Henkell Off-dry, with exotic, lychee A zesty finish and a very apricot and mango on Bell & McCraith, Dulwich de Bordeaux, Beth is now a buyer for Weinvertrieb and pretty citrus flavours. approachable style. the palate. Full-flavoured, Vintners, Exmoor Wines Direct Wines and a respected wine judge. STYLE: Dry Textured, with fresh with a juicy finish. RRP: £13-£15 Beth Willard, wine buyer at IMPORTER: acidity on the finish. Mittelheimer Edelmann Stone and flint on Direct Wines Copestick Murray Riesling 2016 Beetle Riesling 2015 the nose, with a juicy STOCKIST: Ocado IMPORTED RIESLING Rheingau Mosel palate of passion fruit With 17 years experience in the hospitality RRP: £7 £11-£20 100% Riesling 100% Riesling and mango. Luscious, industry, including Michelin-starred Pretty floral aromas, WINERY: Bernhard WINERY: Weingut Zur clean and precise with A journey through the restaurants, top international hotels and with great racy acidity Steinwiege Riesling 2015 Mehrlein Römerkelter a long finish. 50 best wines available working with leading tequila brands, and minerality. A Württemberg STYLE: Dry STYLE: Dry Christina is now bar and wine manager at great-value wine. 100% Riesling IMPORTER: Indigo Wine IMPORTER: Vintage Roots Oberhäuser Leistenberg in Germany right now Som Saa restaurant in London. WINERY: Schnaitmann STOCKIST: Indigo Wine STOCKIST: Vintage Roots Riesling Kabinett 2015 Christina Schneider, sommelier at Devil’s Rock STYLE: Dry RRP: £11.00 RRP: £11.50 Nahe Som Saa Riesling 2016 IMPORTER: Awin Barratt Siegel Lovely tropical and Bright, fresh, spritzy and 100% Riesling ow in its fourth year, Pfalz Wine Agencies smokey nose, juicy vibrant. Very drinkable WINERY: Dönnhoff the Wines of Germany Owner and Michelin-starred chef at 100% Riesling STOCKIST: Alexander Wines, on the palate. A good and good value. STYLE: Off dry Top 50 competition is back The Harrow at Little Bedwyn, with WINERY: Binderer Duncan Murray Wines, Field value wine. IMPORTER: Awin Barratt Siegel – a journey around Germany 40 years’ experience in the hospitality St Ursula & Fawcett, George Hill, Devon Riesling 2015 Wine Agencies in 50 wines presenting you business, Roger is a wine writer, a STYLE: Medium dry Honest Grapes, Lant Street, Mosel STOCKIST: Alexander Wines, with some of the best exam- respected judge and award-winning IMPORTER: Old Butchers Wine Cellar, 100% Riesling Averys, Bancroft, Bottle Apostle, ples from some of the world’s best winegrowing restaurant personality. Off Piste Wines Villeneuve Wines We had a really WINERY: Richard Böcking Clarion, Cru London, D Byrne, regions.N In March, five key members of the Roger Jones, owner of The Harrow STOCKIST: Co-op RRP: £15.99 diverse and high- STYLE: Dry/medium dry Four Walls Wine, Goedhuis, UK wine trade met at The Sampler in South RRP: £5.99 Intense grapefruit, crunchy quality line-up this year, IMPORTER: SWIG H2Vin, Howard Ripley, The Wine at Little Bedwyn Kensington to seek out this year’s Top 50 wines, Clean and fresh, green apple and lime. with some fantastic modern STOCKIST: SWIG Society, Justerini & Brooks, whittling down hundreds of entries. Ex-head sommelier at top restaurants with notes of juicy Well-balanced, with slate, labels and interesting new RRP: £18.50 Les Caves de Pyrene, The expert panel of judges included: Roger Pied à Terre and Rockpool in Sydney, peach on the palate mineral and wet riverstone producers. This year, we’re Deep flavour and texture, Tanners Wine, Taylors Fine Jones, chef and owner of The Harrow at Little Australia, James is now trade director at and a fruity finish. notes. continuing our focus on wines with a flinty and smoky Wine, The Halifax Wine Bedwyn; Beth Willard, wine buyer at Direct Howard Ripley and is founder of The that are already available in character. Soft, evolving Co, Uncorked Wines; Jane Parkinson, journalist and broad- Vault Tastings. Neu-Bamberger Riesling the market, but we are also fruit with notes of pink RRP: £18.50 2015 giving an additional push to grapefruit, lychee and Pretty nose, a very caster; Christina Schneider, sommelier at James Comyn, trade director, restaurant Som Saa; and James Comyn, trade Rheinhessen Pinot Noir wines seeking UK orange. seductive palate and director at Howard Ripley. Howard Ripley 100% Riesling representation. The tasting lovely sweetness. WINERY: Christian Steitz demonstrated just how Off-dry but well-balanced G String – Wines of Germany Trade Tasting STYLE: Dry diverse and exciting German with delicate tropical IMPORTER: wine is at the moment and flavours. Tuesday May 9, 2017 Following 2015’s G Major and more recently 2016’s The Wine Parlour we’re very excited to be able Time: 11am–5pm G Sharp, this year’s tasting, G String, will continue with STOCKIST: to unveil the Top 50 Wines of Venue: The Hospital Club, the musical theme to bring to life an immersive tasting for The Wine Parlour Germany to the UK wine trade 24 Endell St, the UK wine trade. Expect quirky focus areas, sommelier RRP: £18.33 at our trade tasting G String London competitions, expert-led seminars and the first chance to Lychee on the nose with on May 9”. WC2H 9HQ taste the Wines of Germany Top 50 2017. Don’t miss out on a well-balanced palate of Nicky Forrest, the opportunity to sample a concise collection of wines pleasant lime and fleshy managing director, from some of Germany’s most outstanding producers. stone fruit. Wines of Germany UK 22 April 2017 | Harpers.co.uk Harpers.co.uk | April 2017 23 Advertisement feature I think campaigns like the Top 50 help to promote wines Wehlener Sonnenuhr Devon Riesling Spätlese Pinot Blanc Taste the Spätburgunder 2015 Spätburgunder Spätlese Klingenberg that might otherwise not be the focus in major retailers. Riesling GG 2010 Goldtröpfchen 2015 Difference 2015 Württemberg Alte Reben 2015 Spätburgunder 2014 It helps provide some external endorsement for the wines so that Mosel Mosel Mosel 100% Spätburgunder Baden Franken customers have more faith in the final products, and also provides 100% Riesling 100% Riesling 100% Weissburgunder WINERY: Sonnenhof 100% Spätburgunder 100% Spätburgunder an avenue for wines not currently imported in the UK by WINERY: SA Prüm WINERY: Nik Weis WINERY: Weinkellerei STYLE: Dry WINERY: Alde Gott WINERY: Klingenberg highlighting their quality. I think we’ve all focused so much on STYLE: Medium dry STYLE: Sweet Klostor EX CELLAR: €3.20 Winzer Schwarzwald STYLE: Dry newer, bone-dry, zippy Rieslings that are coming out of Germany IMPORTER: Delibo IMPORTER: The WineBarn STYLE: Dry Bright strawberries and STYLE: Dry EX CELLAR: €12.29 – which are great – that there is less focus in the broader UK trade STOCKIST: Delibo STOCKIST: The WineBarn IMPORTER: Sainsbury’s slightly smokey. Delicious EX CELLAR: €9 Vibrant fruit, structure on sweeter styles. But some of the wines we tasted were simply RRP: £36.50 RRP: £20.75 STOCKIST: Sainsbury’s fruit, very drinkable and Lovely fruit and a touch and oak spice, with outstanding. Perfectly harmonious and more-ish. Attractive, grapey nose Savoury nose, ripe but RRP: £7 good value. of oak. Well-balanced umami and savoury Beth Willard with a luscious, rich and balanced. Flavours of A really interesting, light and fruity – a friendly notes coming through. textured palate. Off-dry, peaches and cream, and creamy wine. Very Spätburgunder, 2015 wine.