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All Wines from Albert Boxler
Inventory updated: Fri, Nov 28, 2025 09:02 AM cst
Our vintages of Albert Boxler wine currently include: 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015
Flickinger Fine Wines' inventory of Albert Boxler wine is listed below. We have an excellent and vast assortment of fine wines to choose from. If you do not see what you are looking for, give us a call and we can suggest another Albert Boxler vintage or even another producer that we are sure you will enjoy.
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Vint. |
Wine |
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Qty |
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| Albert Boxler |
2010 |
Riesling Grand Cru Brand  |
$75 |
1 |
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WA 95 (8/2014): Boxler's 2010 Riesling Brand offers a scintillating and intriguing bouquet of iris, gentian, thyme and myriad distilled floral and herbal essences. A scent of fresh lime barely hints at the brightness of lusciously ripe acidity that follows on a firm, polished palate. There is extraordinary focus and resonance on exhibit here, and the liquefied floral and herbal perfumes mingled with lime and white peach to serve as backdrop for a veritable cascade of shimmering mineral impingements in a vibratory finish. "A late, cool year such as 2010," opines Jean Boxler, "is most interesting of all with Riesling on pure granite" such as exhibited here. Plan to relish this vinous triumph through at least 2028.
VM 89+ (11/2012): Golden-straw. Very expressive nose combines orange peel, flowers and honey, with an obvious fusel note already emerging. Fat, silky and full, with almost one-dimensional flavors of tropical fruits and stones. Opulent and mouthfilling, but finishes with enough grip to avoid coming off as blowsy. This wine strikes me as distinctly less refined than the Sommerberg. Jean Boxler says the Brand is always ready to drink earlier than his other rieslings. In 2010, these grapes were harvested before all the others--about eight days before the Sommerberg because they were already the ripest riesling grapes of all. Ian D'Agata. |
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2015 |
Riesling Grand Cru Sommerberg |
$79 |
2 |
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WA 95 (6/2017): Boxler's 2015 Riesling Grand Cru Sommerberg opens with the discreet charm and aristocratic distinction of a great wine. Very pure, clear, fine and elegant on the nose, with fine stony and herbal flavors but also ripe stone fruit and floral aromas, the 2015 tells the story of its origin in the glass in an excitingly subtle yet deep way. The palate is great! It is intense and juicy, nicely concentrated and ripe, with a touch of sweetness but gorgeous finesse, vitality and piquancy. The finish is pure and salty and develops a fascinating juiciness that explodes in the finish. This is not a wine for mouthfeel drinkers, but it is surely one of the finest, most delicate and balanced Rieslings you can find from this vintage. The combination of concentration, complexity, structure, minerality and sweetness (due to the low acidity, higher alcohol and extract) could hardly be better.
VM 93 (4/2018): Bright straw. Open-knit, spicy aromas of tropical fruit and herbs are very granite-driven. Lemony and lively, featuring a slightly chewy quality to the licorice, mineral and stone fruit flavors. Closes long and tactile with lemony mineral bite. Lovely Sommerberg, made from Boxler’s two parcels of vines that never undergo water stress (and they didn’t in hot 2015 either), blessed as they are with deeper soil. This is more harmonious than Boxler’s 2014 Riesling Sommerberg and seems less sweet than that wine at the same stage of development. (Drink between 2023-2033). Ian D'Agata. |
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2012 |
Riesling Grand Cru Sommerberg "D" |
$95 |
1 |
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2015 |
Riesling Grand Cru Sommerberg "D" |
$95 |
3 |
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| VM 93 (4/2018): Bright straw-green. Citrus and floral aromas and flavors are complicated by strong spicy notes. Ripe but juicy, offering suave flavors that persist nicely on the lime-accented, youthfully chewy finish. This surprisingly refined wine (the Dudenstein never strikes me as giving especially elegant wines) is one of Boxler’s Rieslings from this site that I’ve liked best at a similar stage of development. This site has richer, slightly deeper soil than other sites on the Sommerberg (it can get as deep as two feet), so the Dudenstein rarely suffers from water stress and always gives a much richer wine than other nearby slopes. It is, however, a very difficult site to harvest because the grapes have to be picked quickly - in fact, it’s always the first site to be harvested by Boxler, as sugar accumulates so easily that it becomes hard in some years to make a totally dry wine. (Drink between 2023-2030). Ian D'Agata. |
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2015 |
Riesling Grand Cru Sommerberg Dudenstein |
$95 |
2 |
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| WA 94 (6/2017): From vines planted between 1946 and 1953 on the limestone section of the granite terroir, the 2015 Riesling Grand Cru Sommerberg Dudenstein is very clear, pure and flinty on the nose, stunningly cool, very precise and with lovely notes of lemon leaves and peel! Boxler picked the Dudenstein at the first of his grands crus and very early at around 100 degrees Oechsle. The deeper soil produces large Rieslings, but this 2015 is most of all pure, finessed and salty and reveals a lot of vitality and finesse. |
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2013 |
Riesling "K" Grand Cru Brand |
$75 |
1 |
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VM 95 (2/2016): Vivid straw-green. Almost shut down at first, this wine opens with aeration to offer delicate spice and honey aromas and multilayered flavors of stone fruits, lime and grapefruit. It is rich and spicy in typical Brand style, and finishes long, piquant and minerally, with a balsamic element and repeating grapefruit and lime notes. Much richer but less crystalline than the Sommerberg Eckberg, this bottling from Boxler offers another study in the diversity of Riesling expression in different terroirs. As it’s still very youthful and quite closed, I’d forget about it in the cellar for another 5 years and enjoy it for another 20 years after that. If you must try a bottle now, remember to decant this beauty at least an hour or two ahead. (Drink between 2020-2040). Ian D'Agata.
WA 94 (10/2015): The 2013 Riesling Grand Cru Brand K comes from the Kirchberg section, which was planted in 1946. Sometimes the grapes are used for the regular Brand, especially in warm vintages like 2009 when the Brand tends to be too rich. In cooler years such as 2013, Boxler picks, ferments and bottles the Kirchberg separately. In 2013, it was picked at the same time as the Sommerberg E, so 10 days later than the regular Brand. The wine is deep, rich, and intense on the nose and displays lemon flavors mixed with perfumed herbal/floral aromas. Full-bodied, very rich, and concentrated on the palate but full of vitality and tension, this very powerful and elegant Kirchberg reveals a compact structure but asks for a couple of years of bottle aging. |
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