Riesling between $50 and $75

From 65-year-old vines and vinified in fuders until mid-April this year the 2019 Dhroner Hofberg Riesling Trocken is concentrated and flinty on the detailed complex highly aromatic yet refined and slatey nose. Crystalline and... Read More

Fuller than its Liebenberg counterpart and faintly warm (though analytically harboring the same moderate (13.5%) alcohol) Alzinger’s 2012 Riesling Smaragd Hollerin reflects the deeper loess-overlain soils of this site. Apple... Read More

The Alzinger 2012 Riesling Smaragd Hohereck leads with ester-rich high-toned pit fruit distillates almond extract heliotrope wisteria and piquant peach kernel. Full and glossy its luscious white peach and apple are nonetheless... Read More

A cornucopia of fruit aromas across the entire range of citrus and stone fruit with a touch of thyme. Rich and concentrated but this is married to stunningly fresh acidity that lights it up. Lovely floral notes. Moves inexorably... Read More

Luscious apple and white peach are allied to pumpkin and winter squash in an Alzinger 2012 Riesling Smaragd Loibenberg which is fuller more satiny in texture and more obviously extract-rich (indeed almost sweetly so) than the... Read More

This Mosel masterpiece shows such an abundance of beauty and grace and it’s easy just to sink into the wide range of perfectly ripe stone-fruit aromas. Then the finish emerges like a whale rising from the depths to the surface... Read More

The 2020 Frühlingsplätzchen GG is very pure and fresh on the precise and stony pretty reductive and herbal nose that needs lots of air to open up. Crystalline and pure on the palate this is a bone-dry refined enormously salty... Read More

The 2019 Ried Hochrain Riesling Smaragd is from inside the Axpoint and entirely grown on loess. Also this Riesling is a bit rigorous and mean on the slightly untamed but concentrated and fruity nose that shows more white stone... Read More

From ancient partly ungrafted vines the 2020 Enkircher Ellergrub Riesling is white-golden in color and opens with a clear fine and very complex as well as delicate bouquet of ripe fruit and finely weathered blue slate notes. This... Read More

With cacao and crushed stone as well as concentrated peach aromas the 2016 Ried Steiner Hund Riesling is subtle refined and complex on the finely spicy yet deep complex and elegant nose. Bottled in April this year this is a full-bodied... Read More

With a clear somewhat reductive and restrained nose of bright fruit and dark rock Robert and Toni Bodenstein's 2021 Ried Achleiten Riesling Smaragd opens very concentrated but fresh. So too on the palate which is crystalline... Read More

I love the deep and delicate peachy nose of this extremely attractive Wachau dry riesling. Wonderful fresh fruit with a touch of mint and lemon balm on the ripe but rather sleek and very precise palate. The power and concentration... Read More

Thomas Haag's 2020 Juffer Sonnenuhr GG is precise and elegant on the coolish and flinty nose. Enormously vital and salty on the palate this is an energetic tensioned and juicy JSU with good intensity and grip on the finish.... Read More

The 2020 Niederberg Helden Riesling GG shows a coolish even minty nose of broken slate and ripe rich and intense fruit. Full-bodied dense and structured on the palate this is a dense and more muscular Helden that needs some years... Read More

#3 ENTHUSIAST 100 2022 Notes of petrol and pear are focused and intense on the nose. The palate is bright and lemony with a silky smoothness. A long puckery finish leaves a tingly sensation as well as delicious notes of dill fennel... Read More

This is a new grand cru from here and shows crushed stones and cooked apples with lemon undertones. Medium-to full-bodied. Flavorful with lots of gun metal and stone to finish.

Medium-dark golden-tinged straw. Exuberant nose of pineapple almond cake and lime. Enters broad and delicately spicy then juicy and vibrant. Citrusy acidity provides this fleshy tactile wine with clarity and cut. Along with the... Read More

Due to pervasive shriveling thanks to a late-August heat spike Veyder-Malberg's 2012 Riesling Bruck effectively reflects an extreme selection involving separation of still-juicy portions of clusters from the rest. Fresh lime... Read More

The 2019 Viesslinger Ried Bruck Riesling offers concentrated ripe bright fruit that represents a lot of sun and drought as well as weathered terroir and still juicy refreshing fruit. Dense and elegant on the palate with ripe and... Read More

Picked late (in the second half of October) macerated for three hours and fermented down to nine grams of residual sugar the intensely yellow colored 2018 Riesling Schimbock offers an intense complex very fine and elegant bouquet... Read More

A dense layered white with apple pear flint and gunpowder aromas and flavors. Medium-bodied dry and flavorful. Bitter lemon too. Very intense and flavorful. Drinkable now but better in a year or so when it opens up.