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The Fine Wine Review

Claude Kolm

Claude Kolm has been writing The Fine Wine Review since 1986. Currently, The Fine Wine Review covers primarily the wines of Burgundy and Germany, although other regions are also covered, and he also writes about restaurants in Paris.

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2024 Rheingau Riesling GG

As previously noted, in addition to the Rheingau Riesling GG’s presented at the VDP GG Preview, I also tasted a selection of Rheingau GG’s on the eve of the GG Preview, some of which were again presented at the GG Preview, some not.

Th...

4 days ago

2025 Rheingau Riesling GG

Markus Roll of the Balthasar Ress estate had the following commentary on the 2025 vintage in the Rheingau: “The 2025 harvest, with a start already in early September, ranks among the earliest in living memory. The excellent ripening conditi...

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2025 Pfalz Riesling GG Part 3: Southern Sector and a 2024 and a 2023 Riesling GG

The outstanding quality of the 2025 vintage continues all the way south among those who showed 2025 GG Rieslings in Wiesbaden.

A. CHRISTMANN
2025 (Königsbach) Ölberg-Hart Riesling GG
Elegant, filled with fruits, good structure, long in...

6 days ago
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2025 Pfalz Riesling GG Part 2: Forst, Deidesheim, Ruppertsberg

In the past, I’ve often compared the Pfalz to Burgundy’s Côte d’Or and in particular, the wines of Forst to those of Vosne-Romanée for their completeness and the wines of Deidesheim to those of Chambolle-Musigny. (Ruppertsberg can be consid...

6 days ago
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2025 Pfalz Riesling GG Part I: Northern Pfalz

Franz Wehrheim, of estate Dr. Wehrheim, and president of the Pfalz chapter of the VDP wrote the following of the 2025 vintage:

“The autumn of 2025 was a true sprint — intense, concentrated and very early: as early as late August the first...

7 days ago
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    The article that I wrote on Domaine de la Romanée-Conti for The World of Fine Wine is at: http://www.academiedesvinsanciens.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Aubert-de-Villaine-dans-Fine-Wine-Magazine.pdf (cut and paste into browser).

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