Assembled just a few days before my tasting in July, the barrel sample of 2021 Marienburg GG shows clear, bright and fresh, just-ripe fruit (white peach) combined with a spicy slate tone. In the mouth, it's delicate, light... Read More
Nice aromas of melons, pears, and honey, give this Riesling a rich, lush, and juicy impression. The wine finishes with impressive refinement and wet stone along with smoky, tingling intimations of minerality.
A blend from Gernot's four Grand Cru sites of ungrafted vines that are a minimum of 60 years old. A vivid, energetic, deceptively dry Riesling with rich fruit and powerful aromatics (reminiscent of an Alsatian wine).... Read More
This dry Spätlese is a monument to Becker and to his style. This wine is linear and laserlike - you could say it was austere if it didn't have such obvious depth and texture. This is simply a great wine in its extreme... Read More
This comes from the prized Saumagen vineyard from Koehler-Ruprecht's estate in the Pfalz. It has gone through a marvelous transition over the past two decades and has turned up being one of the top 5 estates of the region.... Read More
This dry riesling is a total mineral bomb, with intense notes of wet stone, flint, and sea salt dominating both the nose and palate. The influence of blue Devon slate and quartzite soils is unmistakable, creating a razor-sharp,... Read More
The Shäfer-Fröhilich consummation occurred in the 1970’s, but the family’s cultivation of vines reaches back to the 1800’s. In recent history the family has brought prestige and notoriety to the village... Read More
Stadlmann produces a singular riesling that takes advantage of the calcareous soils and temperate climate of the Thermenregion, rendering a classic, flinty expression of the varietal, leading with crisp, ripe green apple and notes... Read More
The Palmberg is Stein’s “Grand Cru” and a vineyard to measure against any other vineyard in the Mosel, period. It is an awesome site, an ancient wall of vines filled with ungrafted plantings that are 90+ years... Read More