Stunning nose of Amalfi lemon, yellow peach and mirabelle. Very straight and sleek, with serious stony minerality and enough creaminess wrapped around this to prevent the wine from feeling austere at any point. Spot-on balance... Read More
The ginger and smoke aromas (slight reduction) ensure this riesling stands out from the crowd, and as it aerates even more spices and stone fruits emerge. This is still tightly wound with tremendous concentration and great mineral... Read More
Lots of herbal and pine freshness animates this medium-bodied but compact dry riesling. Very good ripeness, but not voluminous or weighty. Serious minerality at the long, deep finish. From organically grown grapes. Drink or hold.... Read More
Very cool and subtle peachy nose. Impressive ripeness and concentration for the challenging vintage, tons of wet stone minerality and lemon zest freshness drive the very long and precise finish. From vine planted in 1896. Vegan.... Read More
Extremely complex nose with lemon zest, fresh pineapple and spicy aromas. Just a whiff of caramel. Rich and very concentrated, the palate creamy at the front and silky at the back, making this very easy to drink now. The finish... Read More
What an exquisite stone fruit nose this super-fine and filigree dry riesling has! Yes, it is also very concentrated, but this and the power are completely underplayed. The result is an almost weightless palate that hangs like... Read More
The 2015 Mosel Riesling Fio displays an intense, golden-yellow color and opens with an intense and tropical-scented bouquet with a richness and lactic creaminess that is reminiscent of cliché Alsace rather than Mosel, though... Read More
The 2021 Dry Riesling Wirz Vineyard comes from some of the oldest Riesling vines in California; the head-pruned, dry-farmed vines were planted in 1964 in Cienega Valley on limestone. It's spicy, delicious and hard to put down,... Read More
Welcome to the wine time machine! Although there are deep, mature aromas that range from an old library to quince paste and beeswax, after a little aeration some remarkably fresh citrus character emerges. Great concentration and... Read More
At first deep, dark and mysterious. Just like the Nikolaihof cellar, where this dry riesling spent 16 years in barrel. Then, a minty freshness develops that leaps out of the glass at you. By some miracle, it manages to taste ancient... Read More
Another stunning Steiner Hund dry riesling from Nikolaihof! Deep and complex nose with a ton of flint, but also crushed-rock, quince and pomelo aromas. For the very warm vintage this is astonishingly cool and restrained, with... Read More
Dark and smoky with plenty of wild herbs and wet earth, this is a bold, generous dry riesling with moderate acidity, but plenty of structure nonetheless. The mirabelle fruit emerges slowly with aeration. Bold yet very clean finish.... Read More
Lime zest, lemon blossom, white peach, flint and white pepper on the nose. Medium-bodied with sharp, bracing acidity. So vibrant and compact with a mineral backbone. Really minerally, tart and dry on the finish. Better from 2023.... Read More
The NV Tradition Heritage Cuvée 10 Years Edition 851 is predominantly based on the 2011 vintage plus older vintages and opens with a nutty and somewhat oaky but very elegant and even saline bouquet that is very fine but... Read More
The Lieser 2019 Niederberg Helden Riesling GG is clear and intense on the remarkably fine, flinty and herbal nose. Full-bodied, lush and intense, with fine crystalline acidity and slate astringency, this is an elegant, round,... Read More
Attractive floral and gently flinty aromas of lime here with sliced pear and wet stones too. The palate has a lively feel with good drive and cut. There’s a minerally, saline edge to the dry, crisp finish. Drink now. Screw... Read More
In 2008 I founded Tatomer with two Riesling vineyards. My intention was to use my knowledge to make bone-dry Riesling in California unlike many of the off-dry examples in the marketplace today. I made a mere 400 cases in a small... Read More
The 2021 Kalkofen Riesling trocken VDP. Grosse Lage comes from the plateau above Deidesheim and owes its density and complexity to 65-year-old vines growing on sandstone and limestone. The must is fermented spontaneously in 500-liter... Read More
The 2021 Grauburgunder Trocken offers a fully ripe and elegant bouquet with flinty and refreshing stony notes spicing the fully ripe and generous but pure and elegant fruit. Medium to full-bodied, this is a round and elegant,... Read More
What a dramatic wine this is, at once ripe and austere, super-stony and super-herbal with a touch of peppermint. Compact core in spite of the sleek and very focused body. Electric freshness at the vibrant finish although the acidity... Read More
Picked a few days before the GG, the 2021 Niederhäuser Hermannshöhle Riesling Auslese is based on highly ripe Riesling berries and opens with a clear, lemony, pure, fresh and finely concentrated bouquet with grapefruit,... Read More
The restrained beauty of the peachiness in the nose is hard to describe, but easy to be overwhelmed by! On the compact palate this has staggering concentration yet still manages to be very light on its feet. The finish is blade-runner... Read More
A truly exceptional dry riesling for the 2021 vintage! Although this is still very young, it already has an enveloping nose of ripe apricot and persimmon with a hint of toast. Mouth-filling richness and stunning concentration... Read More
A masterpiece from an almost unknown vineyard site. The cool and deep nose pulls you into this very concentrated and supple dry riesling GG that has so much power, packed into a sleek silhouette. Long, silky and chalky finish.... Read More
In spite of the ripeness, which edges in a caramelized direction, this retains dramatic freshness that builds and builds as it flows across the palate. The concentration is underplayed, so that the whole composition comes across... Read More