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FEATURED CATEGORIES AND EXPERT JUDGES WERE ☛ Best multiple retailer and online retailer TOP wines – Jamie Avenell (wine buyer, Conviviality), Alex Hunt (purchasing director, Berkmann), Jenny Smith (wine OF THE buyer, Oddbins) BEST ☛ Best independent merchant wines – Dawn Mannis (founder, The Sampler), Mark INDEPENDENT Flounders (wine buyer, Vagabond), MERCHANT Jimmy Smith (owner, Streatham Wine WINES House) CROPS ☛ Best on-trade wines – Harry Lobek Introducing the Wines of Oliver Zeter Sauvignon (owner, London Shell Co), Gus Pollard Blanc Fume (head sommelier, 10 Cases), Dan Belmont Germany Top of the Crops… Pfalz (wine specialist, Bedales), Paul Laurie Sauvignon Blanc 100% (general manager, Pipe of Port) WINERY: Oliver Zeter ☛ Best unrepresented wines – Jamie STYLE: Dry Avenell (Conviviality), Alex Hunt IMPORTER: Delibo Wine (Berkmann), Jenny Smith (Oddbins), Agencies Harry Lobek (London Shell Co), Gus STOCKISTS: Connolly’s Pollard (10 Cases), Dan Belmont of Birmingham, The (Bedales), Paul Laurie (Pipe of Port) Oxford Wine Company, Hitchin Wines, Vin Neuf, Stratford, Zwölberich Auxerrois Leitz Magic Mountain Wilhelm Riesling SA Prum Wehlener Caviste Qualitätswein Rüdesheim Riesling Qualitätswein Sonnenuhr Riesling RRP: £23.00 Nahe Rheingau Mosel Kabinett A funky wine with 100 % 100 % Riesling Riesling Mosel great character. Notes WINERY: Weingut im WINERY: Weingut Leitz WINERY: Bischöfl iche Riesling 100% of nettle, asparagus, Zwölberich STYLE: Dry Weingüter Trier WINERY: SA Prum bread and yeast. STYLE: Dry IMPORTER: Awin Barratt STYLE: Dry STYLE: Medium IMPORTER: Richard Siegel IMPORTER: Boutinot IMPORTER: Delibo Wine Wirsching Iphöfer Dudley Craig, Dudley STOCKISTS: Alexander STOCKISTS: D Byrne & Agencies Kronsberg Silvaner Alte Craig Wines, 58-60 Wines, Ex-Cellar Co, Noel Young Wines, STOCKISTS: Delibo Wine Reben Kensington Church RRP: £20.00 The Jolly Vintner, Vino Agencies Franken Street, London W8 4DB Ripe tropical aromas, Wines RRP: £24.50 100% STOCKISTS: Dudley restrained and elegant RRP: £12.49 Wonderfully balanced WINERY: Weingut Wirsching Craig Wines on the palate with soft Beautiful savoury and creamy. Opulent, STYLE: Dry RRP: £14.95 fl oral notes. lemon and saline on rich and dense, yet IMPORTER: The Charming wine with a the palate with refreshing and Wine Barn great fruit spectrum, brilliant racy acidity. savoury. A real classic. STOCKISTS: The from melon to citrus. Deft and pure. Wine Barn RRP: £21.99 Lovely delicate, Bibo Runge Hargardun Schneider Grauschiefer Dr Loosen Erdener BeckerLandgraf smooth style Riesling Riesling Treppchen Riesling Alte Muschelkalk with melon, Rheingau Nahe Reben GG Spätburgunder ollowing the success of the Top 50 grapes and Riesling 100% 100% Mosel Rheinhessen competition which has run for the past honey. WINERY: Bibo Runge WINERY: Weingut Schneider 100% Riesling Spätburgunder four years, the Wines of Germany Top STYLE: Dry STYLE: Dry WINERY: Weingut Dr Loosen WINERY: Becker-Landgraf of the Crops competition aims to fi nd Matheus Piesporter IMPORTER: Delibo Wine IMPORTER: The Wine Barn STYLE: Dry STYLE: Dry the best wines from Germany and place Goldtröpfchen Riesling Agencies STOCKISTS: The Wine Barn IMPORTER: Awin Barratt IMPORTER: The Winery them in front of UK consumers and Auslese QMP STOCKISTS: Vin Neuf, RRP: £13.15 Siegel STOCKISTS: The Winery members of the trade and press, inspiring the nation Mosel Stratford, Corkage Floral perfume on the STOCKISTS: RRP: 28.99 Fto try new wines and discover what Germany has to Riesling Guildford, David nose with a fl inty Alexander Wines Smokey and meaty with off er today. WINERY: Matheus Alexander, Hampshire, mid-palate and a lovely Ex-Cellar tons of character. Fresh
On Wednesday March 7, 10 key members of the UK serts iStock.com/ Image: STYLE: Sweet McNicoll & Cairnie, texture throughout. RRP: £44-£46 and fragrant with trade met at Bedales in Borough Market to select STOCKISTS: M&M Scotland A rich, opulent soft and cherries and bacon. A Germany’s Top of the Crops. In a change to the com- Personal Vintners RRP: £21.00 sexy wine that will age. sexy wine. petition of previous years, entrants were asked to RRP: 16.99 Complex, spicy and enter their wines according to the channel in which Lovely classic wine herbal with hints of they are sold. The wines were then organised by with lime and citrus on lime. Very typical. channel category in the tasting with each category the palate. Good being judged by experts in that sector. layers and typicity.
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Franz Anton Mohr Riesling Spätlese BEST ON Walter Riesling Markus Molitor Wehlener Kopp Spätburgunder Roter Hauck Grauburgunder Eimermann Riesling Spätburgunder Mosel Klosterberg Kabinett Porphyr Baden Spätlese Trocken Feinherb Baden Rheingau/Germany TRADE Riesling Mosel Baden Rheinhessen Rheinhessen 100% 100% Riesling WINES WINERY: Walter Riesling (100%) Pinot Noir (100%) Pinot Gris Riesling WINERY: Weingut Franz Keller WINERY: Weingut Mohr STYLE: Dry WINERY: Markus Molitor WINERY: Weingut Kopp WINERY: Weingut Hauck WINERY: Weingut STYLE: Dry STYLE: Dry Thörle Saulheimer Riesling IMPORTER: The Winery STYLE: Dry STYLE: Dry STYLE: Dry Eimermann-Domtalhof IMPORTER: The Wine IMPORTER: GK Wine Kalkstein STOCKISTS: The Winery IMPORTER: Bibendum IMPORTER: Bibendum EX-CELLAR PRICE PER STYLE: Medium Dry Barn House Rheinhessen RRP: £8.24 (wholesale STOCKISTS: Bibendum Wine BOTTLE: €4.25 EX-CELLAR PRICE PER STOCKISTS: The Wine STOCKISTS: GK Wine Riesling ex VAT) RRP: £14.64 STOCKISTS: Bibendum Medium body, with BOTTLE: €4.10 Barn House WINERY: Thorle Aromas of white A great example of a Wine good texture and fruit. Good aromas of RRP: £23.75 RRP: £19.90 STYLE: Dry blossom, apricots and quality German RRP: £22.89 Flavours of peach and apples, pears and A polished wine, Ripe peaches and a IMPORTER: Carte a touch of mango. Riesling. Green apple Smokey, dark and white pepper – very white fl ower. Off-dry complex, smokey, good structure. A Blanche Wines Elegant, fresh and fl avours, fresh acidity brooding with great refreshing. with a delicate and soft and juicy with proper wine with STOCKISTS: Carte zippy on the palate. and amazing balance. structure. Lovely comforting sweetness great length. good length and Blanche Wines fl avours of dried fruit and a lovely long will age. RRP: £14.80 and spice. fi nish. Vibrant and bright with ripe and juicy fruit. Raddeck Orbel Riesling Edition A Achkarren HanewaldSchwerdt Devil’s Rock Riesling Residual sugar Schloss Johannisberg Dönnhoff Oberhäuser Schlossberg Pinot Noir Spätburgunder Pfalz balanced by good Riesling Feinherb Yellow Brücke Riesling Spätlese Rheinhessen Pfalz Riesling 85% acidity. Seal BEST Riesling Baden / Kaiserstuhl 100% Spätburgunder/Pinot WINERY: Weinkellerei Rheingau Nahe UNREPRESENTED WINERY: Weingut Spätburgunder 100% Noir Hechtsheim Flick Victoriaberg Riesling Riesling 100% 100% Riesling WINES Raddeck WINERY: WINERY: Weingut STYLE: Dry WINERY: Schloss WINERY: Dönnhoff STYLE: Dry Winzergenossenschaft Hanewald-Schwerdt IMPORTER: LGCF UK Rheingau Johannisberg STYLE: Off Dry Fleischer Sauvignon Blanc EX-CELLAR PRICE PER Achkarren STYLE: Dry STOCKISTS: Co-op Riesling STYLE: Medium Dry IMPORTER: Awin Barratt BOTTLE: €8.45 STYLE: Dry IMPORTER: Prohibition RRP: £5.99 WINERY: Flick IMPORTER: Hallgarten Siegel Rheinhessen Delicate and fl oral with EX-CELLAR PRICE PER Wines, London; Reserve Simple, fruity with STYLE: Dry Druitt & Novum STOCKISTS: Justerini & Sauvignon Blanc 100% aromas of white BOTTLE: €29.00 Wines, Manchester; Noel lovely aromatics. IMPORTER: The Winery STOCKISTS: Strictly Brooks WINERY: Fleischer Wein blossom and An excellent example Young Wines, Good value. STOCKISTS: The Winery Wines RRP: £38-£40 seit 1742 e. K. honeysuckle. Soft on of a Pinot Noir Cambridge RRP: £12.66 (wholesale RRP: £17.86 Aromatically delightful STYLE: Dry the palate with gentle – delicate, with good STOCKISTS: Prohibition ex VAT) Subtle and delicate with scents of orange EX-CELLAR PRICE acidity and a touch of fruit structure. Nice Wines, London; Reserve Asia de Cuba Riesling Aromas of stewed aromas of white blossom and pear. PER BOTTLE: €3.83 sweetness. level of tannins, Wines, Manchester; Landwein Rhein apples hint at lees fl ower and candied Racy acidity cuts Aromatically in line balanced perfectly by Noel Young Wines, Riesling 100% ageing. Energetic and fruit. Great balance, through ripe apricot with New Zealand refreshing acidity, Cambridge WINERY: Hiestand lively with lots of fruit precise style and a and melon fl avours Sauvignons but with Querbach Riesling Edition RRP: £13.95 STYLE: Medium Dry and good texture long fi nish. leaving a fresh and softer fruit. Grassy, Black Forest Pinot Noir Elegant fruit, soft and IMPORTER: Virgin Wines leading to a long fruity fi nish. vegetal fl avours with Rheingau Baden plush with a bright STOCKISTS: Virgin fi nish. a touch of stone fruit Riesling Red acidity. Wines on the fi nish. WINERY: Querbach WINERY: Badischer RRP: £12.99 STYLE: Dry Winzerkeller Lovely balance with Weinbiet Grauburgunder EX-CELLAR PRICE PER STYLE: Dry lime and lemon Edition Philipp Bassler BOTTLE: €5.00 EX-CELLAR PRICE PER BEST fl avours. Long fi nish Pfalz Well-made and fruity, BOTTLE: €4.50 MULTIPLE with complex layers 100% Grauburgunder bursting with citrus Bursting with red RETAILER/ and good depth. WINERY: fl avours, fruit fl avours on the Winzergenossenschaft predominantly lime, nose. Red cherry, ONLINE Weinbiet on the palate. Slightly plum and damson on RETAILER STYLE: Dry off-dry with ageing the palate with a WINES Martin Wassmer Schlatter EX-CELLAR PRICE potential. touch of sweet spice. Maltesergarten PER BOTTLE: €10.00 Pinot Blanc von Spätburgunder QbA Apple, spice and Spätburgunder Avantgarde Rheinhessen Baden savoury notes. German Riesling “Hölle” Rheinhessen Pinot Noir 100% Textured and Baden Palatinate Pinot Blanc 100% WINERY: Martin Wassmer interesting, with Riesling 100 % Spätburgunder WINERY: Reh Kendermann STYLE: Dry intense character. WINERY: Weinmanufaktur WINERY: Bergdolt-Reif & Nett GmbH Weinkellerei IMPORTER: Crush Wines Gengenbach-Offenburg STYLE: Dry STYLE: Dry STOCKISTS: Wine STYLE: Sweet EX-CELLAR PRICE PER IMPORTER: Tesco Society EX-CELLAR PRICE PER BOTTLE: €850 STOCKISTS: Tesco RRP: £15.00 BOTTLE: €3.15 A great example of a RRP: £8.00 Great body and texture Lovely little Riesling German Pinot Noir – it Smokey and fl oral with some good oak for the price. Lively offers a bit of nose with lovely and black cherry fruit. and fresh, slightly everything. Smokey appley fruit and Interesting and off-dry and very aromas, ripe and creamy acidity on the aromatic with an drinkable. stewed red fruit palate. intense fi nish. fl avours, good tannins and lively acidity.
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