Riesling

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

The 2018 Riesling Grand Cru Brand Kirchberg is deep intense and pure on the rich but elegant nose. Lush and refined on the palate this is a round and lush but also salty piquant and finely tannic Riesling with a long and intense... Read More

From vines planted in 1947 facing east and in very poor soil the 2019 Riesling Grand Cru Brand Kirchberg is pure but intense and concentrated on the dense and aromatic nose that also reveals saline notes of crushed stones. On... Read More

The 2018 Riesling Grand Cru Sommerberg Dudenstein opens very pure fresh and airy yet intense on the nose like lemon perfume on crushed flint stones and quartzite. The ripeness is just right. On the palate this is a full-bodied... Read More

The 2020 Riesling Grand Cru Sommerberg Dudenstein is another adorable wine from Jean Boxler. From about 70- 80-year-old vines on deeper marlier soils with a granite layer the 2020 shows a coolish clear and refined bouquet of crushed... Read More

The 2018 Riesling Grand Cru Sommerberg Eckberg is quite similar in the nose to the 2020 showing an intense and concentrated layered bouquet of crushed stones with ripe lemons and phenols. Rich yet vital and pure on the palate... Read More

The intensely yellow-colored 2019 Riesling Grand Cru Sommerberg Eckberg opens with an intense complex and very elegant bouquet of exceptional depth and finesse. Beautiful crystalline stone and citrus aromas lead to a rich 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

What a stunning nose of wild herbs ferns and peaches this dry riesling masterpiece has. Great concentration but all neatly accommodated within a slim silhouette. Very filigree in spite of all the power the finish full of mineral... 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 Halenberg GG is pure precise and fresh on the nose that offers flinty notes of crushed stones herbs and lemons. Crystalline refined and juicy on the palate this is a dense and intense tightly structured and persistently... Read More

The 2020 Halenberg GG is pure precise and fresh on the nose that offers flinty notes of crushed stones herbs and lemons. Crystalline refined and juicy on the palate this is a dense and intense tightly structured and persistently... Read More

The 2020 Frühlingsplätzchen Riesling Spätlese is clear and flinty on the very reductive nose that reveals bright and elegant fruit intertwined with herbal aromas and those of wet red clayish slate. Bright crystalline and fresh... 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

The radiant golden-yellow 2020 Enkircher Batterieberg Riesling comes from 80-year-old ungrafted vines on gray slate and quartzite soils in the steep terraces of the Starkenburg slope and opens with a highly delicate yet also very... Read More

Fruit-driven aromas of white peach and apricot are lifted by a floral element and a hint of spicy botrytis. The rich creamy sweet tropical fruits are given shape and lift by bracing minerality. An auslese in its depth and concentration... Read More

The 2016 Riesling G-Max is very pure fresh and chalky on the nose but also concentrated and ripe. On the palate this is a very concentrated intense juicy pure mineral tannic and well-structured Riesling with a lot of grip tension... Read More

On the nose a smoky peaty and far more overtly mineral impression is conveyed than from the corresponding Abtserde without the latter’s anticipations of floral perfume. By way of fruit aromas zesty lime and lemon piquant huckleberry... Read More