There are 4 Wine Guides in Germany: Gault Millau, Feinschmecker, Eichelmann and Falstaff. These are all annual guides, which are released around November/December. The Falstaff was released in 2013 for the first time.
Eichelmann WeinGuide: 5 out of 5 Stars
Twentysix producers received the maximum of 5 out of 5 stars in the Eichelmann WeinGuide Deutschland 2014. The number is down by 2 from last year, on account of 2 Mosel producers, who lost their fifth star: Weingut Rosch and Weingut Vollenweider. There were no other changes.
Interestingly, the list of winemakers from Baden is relatively long in the Eichelmann ranking and the list of winemakers from the Pfalz extremely short. The following wine regions do not appear in the list below, i.e. there is no winemaker with 5 stars: Mittelrhein, Saale-Unstrut, Sachsen, Hessische Bergstrasse.
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Meyer-Näkel
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Kuenstler, Meyer-Naekel, Wirsching – Winemaker Dinner at Kronenschlösschen in Hattenheim, Rheingau, Germany
Jean Stodden
Baden
Bercher
Dr. Heger
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Joachim Heger, Weingut Dr. Heger: Winemaker of the Year, Gault Millau WeinGuide Deutschland 2013, Germany
Berhard Huber
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One of the Fathers of the German Red Wine Revolution: Weingut Huber in Baden
Franz Keller (Schwarzer Adler)
Michel
Seeger
Franken
Rudolf Fürst
Luckert – Zehnthof
Horst Sauer
Mosel
Clemens Busch
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With Wine Maker Clemens Busch in Puenderich at his Winery in the Mosel Valley, Germany
Clüsserath-Weiler
Markus Molitor
Willi Schaefer
Nahe
Dönnhoff
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An Afternoon with Riesling Star Winemaker Helmut Doennhoff at Weingut Doennhoff in Oberhausen in the Nahe Valley, Germany
Emrich-Schönleber
Schäfer-Fröhlich
Pfalz
Knipser
Rheingau
Georg Breuer
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Schiller’s Favorites at the 2013 Riesling and Co Tasting in New York City, USA
Peter Jakob Kühn
Leitz
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Visiting Weingut Josef Leitz in Ruedesheim – Johannes Leitz is Germany’s Winemaker of the Year, Gault Millau WeinGuide 2011
Robert Weil
Picture: Christian G.E. Schiller and Wilhelm Weil, Weingut Robert Weil, in KiedrichSee also:
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German Riesling and International Grape Varieties – Top Wine Makers Wilhelm Weil and Markus Schneider at Kai Buhrfeindt’s Grand Cru in Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Visiting Wilhelm Weil at his Weingut Robert Weil in Kiedrich, Germany
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Rheinhessen
Klaus Keller
Wittmann
Württemberg
Dautel
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Joachim Heger, Weingut Dr. Heger: Winemaker of the Year, Gault Millau WeinGuide Deutschland 2013, Germany
Visiting Wilhelm Weil at his Weingut Robert Weil in Kiedrich, Germany
Tasting with Wilhelm Weil the 2010 Weingut Weil Wines in Kiedrich, Germany
Visiting Weingut Josef Leitz in Ruedesheim – Johannes Leitz is Germany’s Winemaker of the Year, Gault Millau WeinGuide 2011
With Wine Maker Clemens Busch in Puenderich at his Winery in the Mosel Valley, Germany
Kuenstler, Meyer-Naekel, Wirsching – Winemaker Dinner at Kronenschlösschen in Hattenheim, Rheingau, Germany
One of the Fathers of the German Red Wine Revolution: Weingut Huber in Baden
With Wine Maker Clemens Busch in Puenderich at his Winery in the Mosel Valley, Germany
An Afternoon with Riesling Star Winemaker Helmut Doennhoff at Weingut Doennhoff in Oberhausen in the Nahe Valley, Germany
Weingut Dautel in Wuerttemberg– A Profile, Germany
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