Watch out, this is is a long one. We really shouldn't try to do more than 2 wines.

Sweet wines Darren bought back from Germany are in our glasses - go and find some! We do talk a bit about how these are made, which is damn interesting. Other than that, the focus of the show is hard to work out. However, neither of us had stolen any bicycles recently. Oh... several mea culpas from Darren about inept use of social media.

Jacob brings some customer beef, and Darren judges it to be cold, crusty, mouldy, old stew.

The wines (all were Deutcher Prädikatswein):

Schloss Johannisberg Roslalack Riesling Auslese 2023 (Rheingau)

Flonheimer Adelberg Wolf Riesling Eiswein 2018 (Rheingau)

Scheiden Riesling Beerenauslese Goldene Preismünze 2006 (Mittelrhein)

It was an uncomfortable episode this week with confessions from Jacob about stealing bicycles from small children, reminding Darren that he had his bike stolen by adults as a child. Note: All bicycles were stolen from very naughty boys - listen in to find out.

A trip to Madeira for the very special sweet wines from this amazing Atlantic Island, probably not our last fortified episode as Jacob faces off against the Wine and Spirits Education Trust for his Diploma exam on, you guessed it, fortified wines.

Seriously it will be a relief when he moves into studying still wines.

Wine 1 Henrique & Henrique 10 year old Verdejo

Wine 2 Henrique & Henrique 10 year old Malvasia

In a week that we couldn't get Darren to shut up about his recent trip to the German Rhineland, we had a red from the Ahr Valley and a White from the Rheingau - both from historic estates. We really could not shut him up.

Wine 1 is a Schloss Johannisberg 2021 Silberback Rheingau Riesling GG (Dry). Founded in 1720 on vineyards originally planted in 817, they are the oldest known Riesling wine estate in the world, and the birthplace of Spatlese Riesling!

Wine 2 is a Mayschoss Altenahr 2020 Mayschosser Mönchberg Ahr-Spätburgunder trocken. Founded 1868, they are the oldest winegrowers cooperative in the world!