White Wine

There’s real direction and clarity to this white with sliced dried apples crushed stones and minerals on the nose as well as hints of biscuit and praline. Some honeysuckle and lemon-grass undertones too. It’s full-bodied... Read More

The only dry wine from the vintage is the 2020 Vouvray Le Mont Sec whose tank sample shows a classy pure precise and chalky/lemony bouquet with bright and perfectly healthy fruit and some herbal as well as yeasty aromas. On the... Read More

#19 ENTHUSIAST 100 2022 This wine comes from one of Tokaji's most famous vineyards. It is light amber in color with heady aromas of honeysuckle freesia beeswax and honey. It has pleasant heft on the palate and there are intense... Read More

The 2018 Chardonnay VGW has very pretty aromas of crushed apples roasted almonds and hay with touches of dried white flowers and savory green herbs in the background. In the mouth it's delicately styled and incredibly silky... Read More

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

The 2019 Riesling Grand Cru Sommerberg Vanne is a new entry to the Sommerberg selections of Jean Boxler after he rented this plot that he has known and adored for about 40 years. The wine opens with a clear bright pure and stony... Read More

10 Sep 2021 – A fragrant and super-elegant gruner veltliner which has plenty of concentration but steps lightly. Lots of white peach rosemary and shiso-leaf freshness as well as wet-stone minerality. Very long finely etched... 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

From the opposite side of the Kellerberg with a deep mix of weathered gneiss and loamy soils the 2019 Ried Hollerin Dürnstein Riesling Smaragd is clear bright intense and spicy on the rich and coolish elegant and deep nose. Based... 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

Very intense and focused this dry riesling has noble austerity. The radical thyme grapefruit and bergamot character are married to intensely mineral acidity on the sleek and highly structured palate. The long extremely focused... 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

While the 2019 Condrieu is a bit quiet on the nose it explodes on the palate into waves of apricot melon and pineapple fruit. Full-bodied rich and concentrated yet complex spicy mouthwatering long and refreshing on the finish... Read More