German 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

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

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

Still right at the beginning of a very long life this brilliant dry Rheingau riesling has almost stark minerality that makes you sit up with a jolt. Very intense and precise finish that’s very long for the 2020 vintage. Drinkable... Read More

Coolish pure and bright with dashes of lemon oil on crushed blue slate rocks the 2020 Felseneck GG is a Riesling to wake you up with its tart perfume. With lemon leaves and some sur lie notes on the nose this is always precise... Read More

The 2020 Frühlingsplätzchen GG is pure and fresh on the darker and herbal-toned slate nose that is wonderfully untamed and typical Schäfer-Fröhlich style. Clear fresh and pure yet also with elegance and mineral-driven extract... Read More

The 2020 Stromberg GG is incredibly clear bright and fresh on the coolish northern nose as if this was a young wine from the recent vintage. Full-bodied refined and lush on the palate with crystalline mineral and saline acidity... Read More

The 2020 Felseneck Riesling Kabinett is quite generous on the nose that is reminiscent of lobster soup or risotto with saffron. Lush and generous on the palate this is a wide and charmingly textured yet crystalline and saline... Read More

The 2020 Bockenauer Felseneck Riesling Spätlese Gold Capsule is pure and flinty on the coolish fresh and stimulating nose that shows notes of crushed slate flint stones and iodine. Lush and round yet precise crystalline stimulating... 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

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

Feel the dark side of the Kabinett force! Plenty of cassis and grapefruit aromas but also ripe stone fruit darker wild berries wet earth and rocks. And the interplay of these is what makes this wine so exciting. Extremely long... Read More

22 Oct 2019 – Crystalline purity of white pepper sushi sea salt rosemary and citrus. Electric acidity holds layers of sweet peaches and apricots at bay while refreshening the entire mouth. Medium-sweet but very long. Drink now... Read More