The Gault Millau WeinGuide Deutschland 2018 was released on Monday, November 27, 2017, in Munich, jointly with the Gault Millau Deutschland 2018, which is food guide and rates restaurants and chefs.
This posting lists the climbers in the top categories of each of the German 13 wine regions. The winemaker that were promoted are marked as "Aufsteiger". For information, each of the listed categories also includes those winemakers that did not move up (but stayed put or moved down).
The number of climbers is unusually large. This is due to the fact that the tasting team changed completely for the Gault Millau WeinGuide Deutschland 2018 as the Zabert + Sandmann Verlag purchased the Gault Millau WeinGuide Deutschland publishing license in June 2017.
Gault Millau WeinGuide Deutschland 2018
The Gault Millau WeinGuide Deutschland 2018 was released on Monday, November 27, 2017, in Munich, jointly with the Gault Millau Deutschland 2018, which is food guide and rates restaurants and chefs. 3 days earlier, the Vinum WeinGuide Deutschland 2018 was released in Mainz.
Interestingly, the Gault Millau WeinGuide Deutschland 2018 (24th issue) and the Vinum WeinGuide Deutschland 2018 (1st issue) share a common history.
The Gault Millau WeinGuide Deutschland 2018 was published by the Zabert + Sandmann Verlag, which had aquired the license for the Gault Millau WeinGuide Deutschland from the Christian Verlag in June 2017, which had published the Gault Millau WeinGuide Deutschland 2017.
A year ago, when the Gault Millau WeinGuide Deutschland 2017 was published by the Christian Verlag, Joel B. Payne was the Editor-in-Chief and Carsten S. Henn his Deputy. Joel B. Payne was at the helm of the Gault Millau WeinGuide Deutschland since its first issue in 1994 (earlier with Armin Diel).
Against the background of the transfer of the licence to publish the Gault Millau WeinGuide Deutschland from the Christian Verlag to the Zabert + Sandmann Verlag Joel B. Payne stayed with the Christian Verlag, brought on board the Vinum Journal and managed - along with his Deputy Carsten S. Henn as well as his well established team of taster - to continue publishing a wine guide, under a new name: The Vinum WeinGuide Deutschland. I attended the release event of the latter and have reported about it here:
The Gault Millau WeinGuide Deutschland 2018 was put togather by a newly established team of tasters, all of them highly regarded, led by Editor-in-Chief Britta Wiegelmann, who took over from Joel B. Payne. Previously, she was Editor-in-Chief of the Vinum Wine Journal.
As a result of all these changes, there was quite a bit of movement in the ratings between the 2017 and 2108 issues of the Gault Millau WeinGuide Deutschland. This becomes obvious, inter alia, when you look at the large number of climbers to the 5, 4 1/2 and 4 grapes categories. Notably the group of top winemakers with 5/ 5 grapes grew from 13 to 18 members.
Gault Millau WeinGuide Deutschland 2018: Climbers
Trauben = Grapes (Stars)
Aufsteiger = Climber
Ahr
4 1/2 Trauben
Jean Stodden
4 Trauben
Deutzerhof Crossmann-Hehle (Aufsteiger)
3 1/2 Trauben
J.J. Adeneuer
Burggarten
Meyer-Näkel
Baden
5 Trauben
Dr. Heger (Aufsteiger)
Bernhard Huber
4 1/2 Trauben
Bercher (Aufsteiger)
Salwey (Aufsteiger)
4 Trauben
Karl H. Johner (Aufsteiger)
Franz Keller (Aufsteiger)
Knab (Aufsteiger)
Andreas Laible
Seeger (Aufsteiger)
Schloss Neuweier (Aufsteiger)
Schlör (Aufsteiger)
Reinhold und Cornelia Schneider
Fritz Waßmer (Aufsteiger)
Martin Waßmer (Aufsteiger)
Ziereisen
Franken
5 Trauben
Rudolf Fürst
4 1/2 Trauben
Horst Sauer (Aufsteiger)
Zehnthof Luckert (Aufsteiger)
4 Trauben
Rainer Sauer
Hessische Bergstraße
2 1/2 Trauben
Simon-Bürkle
2 Trauben
Griesel & Compagnie (Aufsteiger)
Mittelrhein
3 1/2 Trauben
Matthias Müller
3 Trauben
Toni Jost – Hahnenhof
Ratzenberger
Mosel
5 Trauben
Forstmeister Geltz Zilliken
Fritz Haag – Dusemonder Hof
Markus Molitor (Aufsteiger)
Egon Müller – Scharzhof
Joh. Jos. Prüm (Aufsteiger)
Schloss Lieser – Thomas Haag
4 1/2 Trauben
Clemens Busch (Aufsteiger)
Peter Lauer (Aufsteiger)
Willi Schaefer (Aufsteiger)
Selbach-Oster (Aufsteiger)
4 Trauben
Jos. Christoffel Jr.
Franz-Josef Eifel (Aufsteiger)
Dr. Hermann
Heymann-Löwenstein
Dr. Loosen
Maximin Grünhaus Schlosskellerei C. von Schubert
Vollenweider
Nik Weis – St. Urbans-Hof
Weiser-Künstler
Van Volxem (Aufsteiger)
Picture: Christian Schiller with Katharina Pruem at Wegmans in Virginia. See also: JJ Pruem Goes Supermarket: Meeting Katharina Pruem and Tasting the Incredible JJ Pruem Wines at Wegmans
Nahe
5 Trauben
Hermann Dönnhoff
Schäfer-Fröhlich
4 1/2 Trauben
Emrich-Schönleber
Schlossgut Diel
4 Trauben
Dr. Crusius
Kruger-Rumpf (Aufsteiger)
Jakob Schneider
Gut Hermannsberg
Pfalz
5 Trauben
Geheimer Rat Dr. von Bassermann-Jordan (Aufsteiger)
Knipser
Ökonomierat Rebholz
4 1/2 Trauben
Dr. Bürklin-Wolf
Bernhard Koch (Aufsteiger)
Philip Kuhn (Aufsteiger)
Dr. Wehrheim
4 Trauben
Friedrich Becker
Christmann
Kranz
Müller-Catoir
Pfeffingen
Reichsrat von Buhl
Rings
Von Winning
Rheingau
5 Trauben
Peter Jakob Kühn
Robert Weil
4 1/2 Trauben
Georg Breuer
Leitz
4 Trauben
J. B. Becker (Aufsteiger)
Schloss Johannisberg (Aufsteiger)
August Kesseler (Aufsteiger)
Künstler
Schloss Reinhartshausen (Aufsteiger)
Josef Spreitzer
Wegeler Gutshaus Rheingau
Rheinhessen
5 Trauben
Klaus Peter Keller
4 1/2 Trauben
Battenfeld-Spanier
Sekthaus Raumland
Wittmann
4 Trauben
Kühling-Gillot
Thörle (Aufsteiger)
Wagner-Stempel (Aufsteiger)
Sachsen
3 1/2 Trauben
Martin Schwarz (Aufsteiger)
3 Trauben
Sächsisches Staatsweingut Schloss Wackerbarth (Aufsteiger)
Klaus Zimmerling
2 1/2 Trauben
Schloss Proschwitz
Saale-Unstrut
3 Trauben
Winzerhof Gussek
Pawis (Aufsteiger)
2 1/2 Trauben
Hey
Uwe Lützkendorf (Aufsteiger)
Württemberg
5 Trauben
Aldinger (Aufsteiger)
4 1/2 Trauben/ 4 Trauben
Dautel (Aufsteiger)
J. Ellwanger (Aufsteiger)
Karl Haidle (Aufsteiger)
Graf Neipperg
Rainer Schnaitmann
Wöhrwag (Aufsteiger)
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