Roussillon winery updates

I've finally updated several of my existing Roussillon winegrower profiles with latest vintages and news, including these hot estates (click on the highlighted link):

Domaine du Traginer, Banyuls-sur-mer (Jean-François Deu, pic. below, hard at it in the field, taken from traginer.fr).

Domaine Laguerre, St. Martin de Fenouillet (Eric & Corine Laguerre).

Olivier Pithon, Calce.

Domaine Puig-Parahÿ, Passa (Georges Puig).

Domaine Gardiès, Espira/Vingrau (Jean Gardiès).

Plus a few 'new' ones: Ch. de Gaure, Dom. Joliette, Dom. Cayrol, Les Conques...

Germany: St. Urbans-Hof, Mosel & Saar

2011 vintage Riesling tasting with Nik Weis

Owner - winemaker Nik Weis (right with cellar manager Rudi Hoffmann left) was in London back in the summer with his UK importer The Wine Barn to preview their 2011 vintage Rieslings from most of their middle-Mosel estate vineyards. These prized plots - some dramatically sloping up from the Mosel in picture-postcard paint-strokes (see photo of Piesporter Goldtröpfchen below), others rising more gently and flattening out a little - are found in six disparate sites with three of them on or near the Saar river (a tributary of the big 'M') up to 40 km away...