Wine with Leslie: There's more to German wine than cheap 1980s plonk

"These days expect vibrant dry great value riesling, and earthy red fruited Pinot Noir (Spätburgunder) that rivals village Burgundy but at half the price."

"Wines today are all from Germany, a country which slips under the radar here and is unfairly remembered for the cheap Liebfraumilch of the 1980s."

So my wife tells me I’m a little eccentric: she appreciates my rag-bag mind full of useful and useless facts (I think), but rather despairs that my desire to learn more about a subject often results in new obsessions and more things for me to collect. 

I’m allowed more wine, but am strictly forbidden from buying more shoes, to take one example.