| Producer |
Vint. |
Wine |
Price |
Qty |
Order |
| | Germany |
| A.J. Adam |
2011 |
Dhroner Hofberg Riesling Spatlese  |
$45 |
1 |
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| VM 89+ (1/2013): Subtle aromas of apricot pit and quince, highlighted by a floral element. Rich, satiny texture supported by fine acidity. The wine's juicy peach, mineral salts and nut oils join the slate on the lingering finish. Joel B. Payne. |
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| Clemens Busch |
2010 |
Pundericher Marienburg Fahrlay Grosses Gewachs |
$49 |
2 |
|
| |
| WA 89 (4/2012): The Busch 2010 Pundericher Marienburg Fahrlay Riesling Grosses Gewachs – while no less full-bodied than its immediate Grosses Gewachs siblings – offers a metaphorically cool performance with its evocations of apple, mint and celery seed. While firm in texture and rather spare in its tart apple skin-tinged, wet stone-lined finish, this retains a very satisfying sense of primary juiciness. Perhaps its 13.5% alcohol – while generating neither heat nor roughness – is working against this really opening-up in its finish; or perhaps more post-bottling time is required. A bottle that had been open for more than two days showed further – smoky, saline – mineral nuances, confirming that this Riesling might be introverted but is no less intriguing for that. I would however want to revisit it in another year or so before hazarding prognostications about its further evolution. |
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2010 |
Pundericher Marienburg Riesling Grosses Gewachs |
$49 |
5 |
|
| |
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2010 |
vom Roten Schiefer Riesling Trocken |
$28 |
2 |
|
| |
| WA 90 (4/2012): As in several recent vintages just above the limit of residual sugar for legal Trockenheit but plenty dry-tasting, Busch’s 2010 Riesling Vom Roten Schiefer displays ripe nectarine and peach, making for a more welcoming and succulent performance than that of the corresponding grey slate bottling. Not only crushed stone but also a red slate-typical hint of smokiness – along with a brown spices and a nip of pepper-cress – inflects an invigorating, satisfyingly juicy and persistent finish, setting up a genuinely vibratory sense of interactivity. This should prove delectably versatile over at least the next half dozen years. |
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| Weingut Hermann Donnhoff |
2012 |
Felsenturmchen Riesling Spatlese (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$263.97 |
1 |
|
| |
|
|
2005 |
Niederhauser Hermannshohle Riesling Auslese (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$1,403.99 |
1 |
|
| |
WS 94 (4/2007): Almost racy, this has an edge of acidity that keeps the apple, peach and mineral notes focused and long. Elegant and persistent, with the flavors resonating on the lingering finish. Best from 2009 through 2030. 128 cases imported.
VM 93+ (2/2007): Rich golden yellow. Bright, crisp nose dominated by candied peach, lemon oil and acacia honey. The lusciously sweet tropical-fruit palate maintains a remarkable delicacy in spite of the wine's richness and depth. The long, glossy finish is underscored by a refined spiciness. |
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2007 |
Niederhauser Hermannshohle Riesling Auslese (12x375ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$460.97 |
1 |
|
| |
|
|
2015 |
Niederhauser Hermannshohle Riesling Auslese (6x375ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$391.97 |
1 |
|
| |
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|
2021 |
Niederhauser Hermannshohle Riesling Auslese (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$745.97 |
1 |
|
| |
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|
2006 |
Niederhauser Hermannshohle Riesling Beerenauslese (12x375ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$1,582.97 |
1 |
|
| |
|
|
2016 |
Niederhauser Hermannshohle Riesling Grosses Gewachs (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$711.97 |
1 |
|
| |
|
|
2017 |
Niederhauser Hermannshohle Riesling Grosses Gewachs (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$860.99 |
1 |
|
| |
|
|
2018 |
Niederhauser Hermannshohle Riesling Grosses Gewachs (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$896.99 |
1 |
|
| |
|
|
2020 |
Niederhauser Hermannshohle Riesling Grosses Gewachs (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$737.99 |
1 |
|
| |
|
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2021 |
Niederhauser Hermannshohle Riesling Grosses Gewachs (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$737.99 |
1 |
|
| |
|
|
2022 |
Niederhauser Hermannshohle Riesling Grosses Gewachs |
$88 |
2 |
|
| |
|
|
2007 |
Niederhauser Hermannshohle Riesling Spatlese (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$788.97 |
2 |
|
| |
WA 96 (10/2009): Gardenia, peony, and resinous herbs in the nose of Donnhoff's 2007 Niederhauser Hermannshohle Riesling Spatlese give way to a palpably extract-rich palate of vibratory intensity, suffused with stony, saline, and tactile suggestions of mineral matter, yet at the same time rich orchard fruits. If the Krotenpfuhl was painted with water colors, the medium here is definitely oil, exhibiting both dynamic and intricate brush work as well as dense layering. This masterpiece - picked simultaneously with the corresponding Grosses Gewachs - was only beginning to show its depth in the spring and needed almost six months in bottle to really shine forth. Take as long as fate permits you to savor this; I can't imagine it disappointing a quarter century or more from now.
WS 94 (4/2009): Bright and expressive, evoking apricot, nectarine and orange, with accents of sweet corn and vanilla custard. If the flavors were colors they would be neon, like a Pucci print. Drink now through 2028.
VM 93+ (2/2009): Tantalizing aromas of papaya, sweet herbs and incense. Discreet but intense black cherry fruit rises from the mid-palate, accompanied by brilliant acidity. Animated and finely spiced, with a deep, long finish. I may be underrating this. |
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2011 |
Niederhauser Hermannshohle Riesling Spatlese (3.0 L)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$266.97 |
1 |
|
| |
| WA 96 (2/2013): A riveting, high-toned aromatic diversity announces the Donnhoff 2011 Niederhauser Hermannshohle Riesling Spatlese with themes that inform an at once creamy yet subtly tannic and vibrant palate: quince, pear, lychee, nut oils, fusel oils, distilled herbal essences, brown spices, and smoky black tea. This behaves as if a bit of Traminer had been blended-in. The rich nuttiness and glaze of honey as well as sheer succulence of fruit make for a more opulent performance than that of Brucke, but to say that this is less energetic or dynamic would be misleading. Its incessant interplay of elements is utterly kaleidoscopic – just more calmly harmonious than the Spatlese from next door. Like that sibling, this deserves to be followed for a good quarter-century. |
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2014 |
Niederhauser Hermannshohle Riesling Spatlese (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$442.97 |
1 |
|
| |
|
|
2019 |
Niederhauser Hermannshohle Riesling Spatlese (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$501.97 |
1 |
|
| |
| JS 100 (8/2020): All of nature's springtime joy and the epitome of autumnal ripeness somehow combine with summer-morning dew to offer one of the greatest off-dry German wines made in modern times. Breathtaking finish, so wonderfully light and filigree. From organically grown grapes with Fair'n Green certification. Drink or hold. |
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2022 |
Niederhauser Hermannshohle Riesling Spatlese (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$469.97 |
8 |
|
| |
|
|
2016 |
Norheimer Dellchen Riesling Grosses Gewachs (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$571.97 |
1 |
|
| |
|
|
2019 |
Norheimer Kirschheck Riesling Spatlese (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$280.97 |
7 |
|
| |
|
|
2019 |
Norheimer Kirschheck Riesling Spatlese (3x1.5L)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$329.97 |
3 |
|
| |
|
|
2021 |
Norheimer Kirschheck Riesling Spatlese (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$301.97 |
6 |
|
| |
|
|
2011 |
Oberhauser Brucke Riesling Auslese Goldkapsel (3.0 L)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$331.97 |
2 |
|
| |
|
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2019 |
Oberhauser Brucke Riesling Beerenauslese (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$3,462.99 |
1 |
|
| |
|
|
2011 |
Oberhauser Brucke Riesling Spatlese (3.0 L)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$463.97 |
1 |
|
| |
WA 96 (2/2013): High-toned, distillate-like herbal extracts along with ripe fresh strawberry, apple and quince inform the scintillating nose and electrical charged palate of Donnhoff’s 2011 Oberhauser Brucke Riesling Spatlese. “We were able to just keep waiting on this site," he explains, “so that even this lightest wine from the Brucke was picked only in the last days of (regular) harvest." Hints of pits and seed, along with black tea, nut oils, zesty citrus, and myriad mineral impingements add to a sense of quickening that goes well beyond mere invigoration in this gem’s strikingly persistent, shimmeringly vibrant finish. I was left with salivary glands palpitating and arms covered in gooseflesh. It will probably be hard to resist such a wine at any point over the next quarter century, but those with the requisite remaining life expectancy should make an effort to defer for the duration the pleasure of at least the last bottle or two.
WS 91 (4/2013): Fruity and expressive, with a lush spiciness to the ripe apple and baked peach flavors. Intense glazed apricot and jellied citrus notes linger on the juicy, sumptuous finish. Drink now through 2035. Tasted twice, with consistent notes. 56 cases imported. |
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2016 |
Oberhauser Brucke Riesling Spatlese (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$301.98 |
1 |
|
| |
| VM 95 (4/2018): The site-typical nose delivers a head-turningly fragrant rush of buddleia and heliotrope, while anticipating the juicy, piquant, crunchy fresh red raspberry, pit-inflected white peach and lime that dominate a silken, almost creamy, yet animatingly bright palate. Inner-mouth perfume rises seductively as fresh ginger adds incisive invigoration and an influx of quince reinforces the sense of richness. On one level, the finish is penetratingly bright and vibrantly animating, preserving invigoratingly piquant hints of seeds and pits. Yet simultaneously it seems to float with near-endless suspension into the ether, subtly echoing the complexities that went before and adding a mouthwatering hint of salinity. David Schildknecht. |
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2018 |
Oberhauser Brucke Riesling Spatlese (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$371.99 |
2 |
|
| |
| VM 94 (6/2020): White peach, quince and red raspberry give an impression on the nose and the creamy, polished palate of both jellied and fresh fruits. An influx of lime serves for welcome, animating brightness, and the penetratingly sustained, mouthwateringly salt-tinged finish is transparent to wet stone, setting up a shimmering fruit–mineral exchange. David Schildknecht. |
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2022 |
Oberhauser Brucke Riesling Spatlese (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$357.99 |
7 |
|
| |
|
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2019 |
Oberhauser Leistenberg Riesling Kabinett (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$254.97 |
1 |
|
| |
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2021 |
Schlossbockelheim Felsenberg Riesling Auslese Goldkapsel (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$651.97 |
2 |
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2018 |
Schlossbockelheim Felsenberg Riesling Spatlese (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$459.99 |
4 |
|
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2017 |
Schlossbockelheimer Felsenberg Riesling Grosses Gewachs (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$462.99 |
1 |
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| VM 92 (4/2019): Huckleberry and bay, grapefruit and pineapple inform a site-typical nose of penetrating pungency that anticipates this wine’s palpably dense, seedily piquant, invigoratingly zesty and tangy palate performance. Buddleia and elder flower lend alluring inner-mouth perfume. Juiciness of honeydew melon emerges accompanied by rind-like crunch and bitterness; but these are balanced by a coolingly green herbal presence, tangy citricity and pineapple core tingle. David Schildknecht. |
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2021 |
Schlossbockelheimer Felsenberg Riesling Grosses Gewachs (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$499.99 |
1 |
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2022 |
Schlossbockelheimer Felsenberg Riesling Grosses Gewachs (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$460.97 |
3 |
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| Weingut Emrich-Schonleber |
2009 |
Mineral Riesling |
$39 |
4 |
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| WA 90 (2/2011): Informed by fruit from some moderately steep slopes in the Fruhlingsplatzchen and Halenberg as well from the cool Rosenberg behind the village, the Schonlebers’ 2009 Riesling trocken Mineral manages to maintain a delightful sense of buoyancy even at 12.5% alcohol. This displays a deep sense of salinity one often associates with quartzite-rich sites, and which here threads its way invigoratingly and saliva-inducingly through a stream of lemon, grapefruit, white peach, and red berries. Cooling high-toned suggestions of mint and oregano add to the sense of refreshment in this long-finishing Riesling that ought to perform well for at least the next 4-5 years. |
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2020 |
Monzinger Fruhlingspatzchen Riesling Grosses Gewachs (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$662.99 |
1 |
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JS 97 (9/2021): A breathtaking wine that has all the mineral depth and concentration you associate with a Grand Cru, but also a wide spectrum of very fine citrus and berry aromas. Then it splash lands in an explosion of fresh-herb aromas. Drink or hold.
WS 96 (8/2021): 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 and piquant Riesling from partly red slate, loam and quartzite plots. The finish is pure, fresh and precise, very long and expressive. Tasted from a bottle that was opened three days earlier, it is much more charming and open on the nose, showing an intense and complex bouquet of crushed stones, lemons and white fruits. The palate is round and elegant, much lusher and long, but it still has long-lasting salinity on the finish. A gorgeous Frühlingsplätzchen that today comes from stonier plots than in the beginning of the GG saga. 12.5% alcohol. Tasted at the domain in July 2021. |
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2022 |
Monzinger Fruhlingspatzchen Riesling Grosses Gewachs |
$66.99 |
17 |
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| VM 93-95 (9/2023): The 2022 Riesling Monzinger Frühlingsplätzchen Grosses Gewächs opens with a sunny, friendly creaminess, and a slight overtone of mango sets an accent. The palate is serene, bright, absolutely focused on lemon and a little lemony pith, but with a luminous, slender creaminess. The textural aspect holds spice, which is not apparent yet but will reveal itself. It also gives structure to this light, bright, filigree wine. Subtle length extends that lovely, gentle pithiness. Anne Krebiehl. |
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2009 |
Monzinger Fruhlingsplatzchen Riesling Spatlese |
$55 |
4 |
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WA 94 (2/2011): The Schonleber 2009 Monzinger Fruhlingsplatzchen Riesling Spatlese fascinatingly mingles luscious citrus, salted caramel, nut paste, white peach, Persian melon, subtly tart red raspberry, and diverse mineral nuances. Musk, goose fat, and vaguely pheromonic notes add animal intrigue. Even at 70 grams of residual sugar, the sweetness is supportive rather than obtrusive, and one consequence is a mere 9% alcohol and concomitant sense of levity. Creamy in texture, yet packed with pure, juicy refreshment, this finishes with alluring length and a compulsive urge to take the next sip and the next. Frank Schonleber opines that the tension and nuances in this wine were slow to emerge in its elevage and also will be from the bottle. Certainly we can look forward to at least two decades of kaleidoscopically interactive, thought-provoking delight.
VM 90 (1/2011): Delicate aromas of pineapple, quince and herbs. The palate offers a fine interplay of ripe citrus fruits and salty, refreshing minerality. A refined and expressive finish give this wine stature. Very drinkable already. Joel B. Payne. |
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2020 |
Monzinger Fruhlingsplatzchen Riesling Spatlese |
$42 |
4 |
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2020 |
Monzinger Fruhtau Riesling |
$29.99 |
7 |
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2021 |
Monzinger Fruhtau Riesling |
$29.99 |
17 |
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2022 |
Monzinger Halenberg Riesling Grosses Gewachs |
$49.95 |
9 |
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2017 |
Monzinger Halenberg Riesling R |
$79 |
3 |
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| Weingut Forstmeister Geltz Erben Zilliken |
2005 |
Saarburger Rausch Riesling Trockenbeerenauslese (375 ML) |
$1,400 |
1 |
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| Fritz Haag |
2019 |
Brauneberger Juffer Riesling Auslese (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$293.97 |
3 |
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1995 |
Brauneberger Juffer Sonnenuhr Riesling Auslese Lange Goldkapsel Fuder 5 Auction Bottling |
$500 |
1 |
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2016 |
Brauneberger Juffer-Sonnenuhr Riesling Auslese Goldkapsel #9 (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$342.98 |
1 |
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| Thomas Haag |
2016 |
Schloss Lieser Doctor Riesling Auslese |
$75 |
6 |
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WA 96 (4/2018): Filled in 375-milliliter bottles, the 2016 Bernkasteler Doctor Riesling Auslese is remarkably deep, cool, fresh and mineral on the nose, with flinty grapefruit and mocha/coffee bean flavors (probably coming from the ripe pips of the very small berries). Lush, round and intense but very elegant and with a serious, persistent structure and raspberry flavors, this is a pure and piquant, beautifully grippy and stimulatingly salty Auslese with excellent aging potential. Great tension and complexity here. From 80-year-old vines, this was picked in early November, a few days before the GG. Tasted March 2018.
VM 94 (1/2018): A heady nose of decadent lily, musky peony, pineapple, pink grapefruit, cassis and overripe Persian melon sets the stage for a subtly creamy, expansive, rich yet delicate palate impression, with pineapple and grapefruit serving for welcome tang and brightness to complement the wine’s textural creaminess, effusive inner-mouth perfume and luscious but overripe fruit tendencies. The combination of richness and exuberance here is really striking, and the superbly sustained finish is both ringingly clear and infectiously juicy, virtues one doesn’t encounter often in an Auslese and that I least expected in one from the Doctor. Haag says that the fruit here was botrytis-free and that is indeed how it tastes. What an auspicious first-ever Schloss Lieser Doctor Auslese! (And this wine was not auctioned but instead sold to private customers and the trade through the estate’s regular price list.) (Drink between 2017-2045). David SChildknecht. |
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2016 |
Schloss Lieser Goldtropfchen Riesling Spatlese |
$35 |
11 |
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| VM 92 (1/2018): Lime, grapefruit, cassis and smoky black tea combine for a head-turningly intense nose and correspondingly generously juicy impression on a silken palate. Like this year’s Goldtröpfchen Kabinett, this boasts a finish of unusual sheer brightness for that site, accompanied by cooling green herbal infusions, stimulating fruit seed piquancy and a mouthwatering dose of mineral salts. (Drink between 2017-2035). David Schildknecht. |
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2016 |
Schloss Lieser Niederberg Helden Riesling Auslese |
$60 |
6 |
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WA 96 (4/2018): The 2016 Niederberg Helden Riesling Auslese displays clear, fresh and exotic fruit with a highly delicate slate spiciness. Lush and highly elegant, with mouth-filling but highly refined and elegant fruit and very fine crystallinity, this is a terribly fine and filigreed as well as sensual and persistent Helden Auslese. Perfectly balanced, with a mouthwatering and charming finish. Tasted March 2018.
VM 91 (1/2018): Very ripe but fresh peach and muskmelon are mingled with pink grapefruit and lightly shrouded in musky, dusty scents. The glycerol-rich, subtly creamy palate is lusciously fruity with the grapefruit serving to enhance an exotic sense of ripeness but also to supply a modicum of welcome citric juiciness and zest. Hints of brown spice add to the allure of an impressively persistent finish, albeit not one exhibiting the clarity, brightness or mineral dimension displayed by the best wines in this latest Schloss Lieser collection. While Haag reports having harvested very little nobly rotten fruit, this wine certainly strikes me as significantly influenced by botrytis, with both virtues and drawbacks. (Drink between 2017-2035). David Schildknecht. |
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2016 |
Schloss Lieser Niederberg Helden Riesling Spatlese |
$45 |
12 |
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WA 93 (4/2018): The 2016 Niederberg Helden Riesling Spätlese is clear, fresh and pure but very reduced at this early stage. Lush, intense and racy on the palate, this is a salty-piquant and grippy Spätlese with tension and aging potential. Keep it for 8 to 10 years! Tasted March 2018.
VM 92 (1/2018): Mirabelle, pear and white peach on the nose translate into generous fresh fruit juiciness on a polished, silken palate. Honeydew melon adds a ripe and luscious dimension to the fruit as it heads into a sustained, buoyant, slate-lined finish that both soothes and stimulates. The high residual sugar here is entirely supportive and its sweetness unobtrusive. (Drink between 2017-2035). David Schildknecht. |
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2016 |
Schloss Lieser Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Kabinett |
$35 |
12 |
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WA 93 (4/2018): The 2016 Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Kabinett displays upfront fruit of perfectly ripe and lush stone fruits. On the palate, this is a very salty, lush and piquant Kabinett with lingering salinity and mineral tension. Gorgeous. Tasted March 2018.
VM 91 (1/2018): There is considerable fermentative “Mosel stink” on the nose that only gradually lifts enough to reveal site-typical apple wreathed in honeysuckle and heliotrope. Perhaps not coincidentally, while picked at around the same 90 Oechsle as the other site-specific Haag Kabinetts of the vintage, this one exhibits the most striking sense of delicacy. “It may be,” Haag suggested, “that this is a Kabinett for the real Mosel Riesling freaks.” It’s also one for fans with patience. The feel here is subtly creamy and the long finish clears nicely to feature persistent inner-mouth floral perfume and stony underpinnings as well as succulent fruit reinforced by high but remarkably unobtrusive residual sugar. (Drink between 2019-2028). David Schildknecht. |
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| Weingut Heymann-Lowenstein |
2010 |
Winninger Uhlen-R Roth Lay Riesling Auslese Signs of Old Seepage |
$109 |
2 |
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| VM 93 (1/2012): Rich aromas of tropical fruit, persimmon and smoky spices on a velvety bed of brown spice botrytis. Concentrated apricot and compressed minerality animate the palate. With a rich, dense, complex finish more like a Pfalz wine, this auslese is nonetheless impressive. Joel B. Payne. |
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| Weingut Georg Gustav Huff |
2020 |
Hipping Riesling Alte Reben |
$39.99 |
3 |
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| JS 96 (11/2021): So much star fruit, pink grapefruit and white peach on the nose, knocking you back slightly in the first moment. As bright as a rocket leaving the launch-pad in the direction of Mars, this dry riesling from the red soils of one of Nierstein’s top sites is super-straight and focused, the breathtaking, fresh finish intensely citrus and mineral. Drink or hold. |
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2020 |
Niersteiner Hipping Riesling Trocken |
$39.99 |
24 |
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2012 |
Niersteiner Pettenthal Riesling Trocken |
$39.99 |
12 |
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| Jakob Gerhardt |
2002 |
Dienheimer Tafelstein Silvaner Eiswein (375 ML) |
$35 |
3 |
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| Weingut Keller |
2024 |
Gruner Sylvaner |
$27.99 |
3 |
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2024 |
Riesling Limestone |
$31.99 |
36 |
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2024 |
Riesling Limestone Kabinett |
$36.99 |
38 |
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2022 |
Riesling Trocken "RR" |
$67 |
7 |
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2022 |
Riesling Trocken "RR" |
$74.99 |
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2023 |
Riesling Trocken "RR" |
$58.95 |
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2024 |
Riesling Trocken "RR" |
$59 |
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2024 |
Von der Fels Riesling Trocken |
$48.99 |
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2022 |
Westhofener Abts’erde Riesling Kabinett |
$199 |
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2016 |
Westhofener Kirchspiel Riesling Grosses Gewachs (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$2,140.99 |
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JG 95 (1/2018): The 2016 Kirchspiel from Klaus-Peter Keller is a beautifully refined example of this
WA 93+ (10/2017): Partly pressed in a basket press (60%), the 2016 Kirchspiel Riesling GG opens with a clear, fresh, chalky and intensely fruity nose. This is a rich, juicy, concentrated and fresh dry Riesling from calcareous soils that reveals a lot of tension, salt and vitality. Fine tannins here. Great concentration, juiciness and lingering salinity, with great grip and tension. An impressive wine! |
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| Weingut Reinhard und Beate Knebel |
2001 |
Winninger Rottgen Riesling Auslese (375 ML) Lightly Tattered Label |
$175 |
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2001 |
Winninger Rottgen Riesling Auslese (500 ML) |
$250 |
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2001 |
Winninger Rottgen Riesling Spatlese |
$325 |
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| Kruger Rumpf |
2002 |
Munsterer Pittersberg Riesling Eiswein (375 ML) Signs of Old Seepage |
$69 |
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| Kunstler |
1989 |
Hochheimer Reichestal Riesling Eiswein (500 ML) Signs of Old Seepage; Very Heavily Bin-Soiled Label. 500 ml |
$139 |
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1989 |
Hochheimer Reichestal Riesling Eiswein (500 ML) Signs of Old Seepage; Very Heavily Bin-Soiled Label. |
$179 |
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| Peter Lauer |
2019 |
Ayler Kupp Grosses Gewachs Fass 18 (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$307.97 |
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2018 |
Ayler Kupp Stirn Fass 15 (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$296.99 |
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2015 |
Barrel X Feinherb Riesling |
$38 |
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2020 |
Kupp Fass 18 Grosses Gewachs |
$54.99 |
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JS 95 (7/2021): Complex nose of wet ferns, wild berries and smoke. As cool and still as it is deep in the woods, this concentrated, tightly wound wine is just beginning to open up. Very classic, stony finish with noble austerity. Drinkable now, but best from 2023. Screw cap.
WA 92+ (9/2021): Lauer’s 2020 Kupp GG Fass 18 shows a clear and pure yet intense, still a bit yeasty bouquet. The palate is quite rich and powerful but elegant, revealing a Kupp that needs some years to develop more finesse and charm. The wine is quite intense and lush and provided with tannins that still dry the palate a bit. Tasted in Wiesbaden in August 2021. |
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2021 |
Kupp Fass 18 Grosses Gewachs |
$57.99 |
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2019 |
Riesling Schonfels Grosses Gewachs Fass 11 (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$465.97 |
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2018 |
Saarfeilser Grosses Gewachs Fass 13 (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$335.99 |
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2014 |
Senior Riesling Fass 6 |
$30 |
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| VM 90 (7/2016): Nicknamed in an allusion to the style of wine favored by Florian Lauer’s grandfather – but also by many “old-time” customers of the estate – this bottling from west-facing slopes at the northern extreme of Ayl used to be uniformly dry but in recent years, including the one in question, can be very subtly off-dry. Scents of pear and cherry are shadowed by their distilled counterparts, and a glossy, subtly creamy, fruit-filled palate preserves lovely transparency to stony, char-like and citrus zest nuances, leading to a lusciously lingering finish. (Drink between 2016-2026). David Schildknecht. |
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2014 |
Senior Riesling Fass 6 Signs of Old Seepage |
$30 |
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| VM 90 (7/2016): Nicknamed in an allusion to the style of wine favored by Florian Lauer’s grandfather – but also by many “old-time” customers of the estate – this bottling from west-facing slopes at the northern extreme of Ayl used to be uniformly dry but in recent years, including the one in question, can be very subtly off-dry. Scents of pear and cherry are shadowed by their distilled counterparts, and a glossy, subtly creamy, fruit-filled palate preserves lovely transparency to stony, char-like and citrus zest nuances, leading to a lusciously lingering finish. (Drink between 2016-2026). David Schildknecht. |
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| Egon Muller |
2015 |
Scharzhof Riesling (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$793.97 |
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| VM 89 (5/2017): This bottling, as usual based in large part on Saarburg and Oberemmel fruit but also incorporating a bit from Wiltingen, delightfully illustrates the bright, animating acidity of its vintage. Fresh apple and pear are laced with zesty lemon and lime and underlain by wet stone on a firm, palpably extract-rich palate. Green herbal pungency and peat-like smokiness lend further interest to an exuberant and refreshing finish. David Schildknecht. |
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2020 |
Scharzhof Riesling (12x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$889.99 |
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2020 |
Scharzhof Riesling (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$477.99 |
1 |
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2018 |
Scharzhofberger Riesling Auslese (3.0 L)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$2,773.97 |
1 |
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2021 |
Scharzhofberger Riesling Auslese (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$4,460.99 |
1 |
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2013 |
Scharzhofberger Riesling Auslese Goldkapsel (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$17,374.99 |
1 |
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2018 |
Scharzhofberger Riesling Auslese Goldkapsel (3.0 L)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$7,490.97 |
1 |
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2018 |
Scharzhofberger Riesling Auslese Goldkapsel (6.0 L)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$15,601.97 |
1 |
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2012 |
Scharzhofberger Riesling Kabinett (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$1,606.97 |
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2017 |
Scharzhofberger Riesling Kabinett (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$1,053.99 |
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| JS 93 (6/2018): An extremely racy and vibrant Kabinett that packs a ton of character into its sleek frame. A rapier-like finish that flashes as it moves across the palate. Drink or hold. |
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2018 |
Scharzhofberger Riesling Kabinett (3.0 L)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$916.97 |
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WA 92+ (8/2019): The 2018 Scharzhofberger Kabinett (AP #2) is brilliant, clear and coolish on the nose, with cold, wet and clayey yet also crunchy slate aromas and bright fruit. Lush and precise, with lingering salinity and mineral expression, this is a complex and structured Scharzhofberger Kabinett with great aging potential. Tasted in June 2019.
VM 92 (7/2020): White currant and white peach are pungently wreathed in green herbs for stimulating aromatic display, and are joined on a firm palate by incisive, invigorating nips of cress and radish. The finish is mouth-shaking in its bright conveyance of energy, not to mention consummately refreshing and implacably stony. David Schildknecht. |
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2018 |
Scharzhofberger Riesling Kabinett (6.0 L)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$2,112.97 |
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WA 92+ (8/2019): The 2018 Scharzhofberger Kabinett (AP #2) is brilliant, clear and coolish on the nose, with cold, wet and clayey yet also crunchy slate aromas and bright fruit. Lush and precise, with lingering salinity and mineral expression, this is a complex and structured Scharzhofberger Kabinett with great aging potential. Tasted in June 2019.
VM 92 (7/2020): White currant and white peach are pungently wreathed in green herbs for stimulating aromatic display, and are joined on a firm palate by incisive, invigorating nips of cress and radish. The finish is mouth-shaking in its bright conveyance of energy, not to mention consummately refreshing and implacably stony. David Schildknecht. |
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2018 |
Scharzhofberger Riesling Kabinett (3x1.5L)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$976.99 |
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WA 92+ (8/2019): The 2018 Scharzhofberger Kabinett (AP #2) is brilliant, clear and coolish on the nose, with cold, wet and clayey yet also crunchy slate aromas and bright fruit. Lush and precise, with lingering salinity and mineral expression, this is a complex and structured Scharzhofberger Kabinett with great aging potential. Tasted in June 2019.
VM 92 (7/2020): White currant and white peach are pungently wreathed in green herbs for stimulating aromatic display, and are joined on a firm palate by incisive, invigorating nips of cress and radish. The finish is mouth-shaking in its bright conveyance of energy, not to mention consummately refreshing and implacably stony. David Schildknecht. |
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2020 |
Scharzhofberger Riesling Kabinett (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$1,060.99 |
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2022 |
Scharzhofberger Riesling Kabinett (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$1,165.99 |
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2013 |
Scharzhofberger Riesling Spatlese (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$2,067.99 |
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2018 |
Scharzhofberger Riesling Spatlese (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$1,216.99 |
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2019 |
Scharzhofberger Riesling Spatlese (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$1,772.99 |
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2020 |
Scharzhofberger Riesling Spatlese (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$1,342.99 |
1 |
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2020 |
Wiltinger Braune Kupp Riesling Spatlese (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$1,102.97 |
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| JJ Prum |
2019 |
Bernkasteler Badstube Riesling Kabinett (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$399.97 |
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2020 |
Bernkasteler Badstube Riesling Kabinett (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$285.99 |
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2021 |
Bernkasteler Badstube Riesling Kabinett (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$261.97 |
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2022 |
Bernkasteler Badstube Riesling Kabinett (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$285.99 |
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2021 |
Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Auslese (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$387.99 |
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2022 |
Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Auslese (1.5 L) |
$139 |
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| VM 92 (10/2023): The 2022 Riesling Graacher Himmelreich Auslese is rather shy. The palate tingles with tangerine, ripe, rounded, aromatic, and full of tangy, zesty, sweet, ripe citrus. Wonderfully expressive on the mid-palate and with a subtle finish, full of those vivid aromatics. Anne Krebiehl. |
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2022 |
Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Auslese (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$394.97 |
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| VM 92 (10/2023): The 2022 Riesling Graacher Himmelreich Auslese is rather shy. The palate tingles with tangerine, ripe, rounded, aromatic, and full of tangy, zesty, sweet, ripe citrus. Wonderfully expressive on the mid-palate and with a subtle finish, full of those vivid aromatics. Anne Krebiehl. |
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2018 |
Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Kabinett (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$285.99 |
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2019 |
Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Kabinett (3x1.5L)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$451.97 |
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2020 |
Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Kabinett (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$350.99 |
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2021 |
Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Kabinett (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$307.97 |
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2021 |
Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Kabinett (3x1.5L)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$326.97 |
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2022 |
Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Kabinett (1.5 L) |
$99 |
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| VM 93 (10/2023): The 2022 Riesling Graacher Himmelreich Kabinett has the slightest crackle of flint on the shy nose. Fennel and nutmeg appear before orange peel joins in. The palate is light, with a lovely, smooth, lithe backdrop of sweet mandarin and clementine. The 2022 is tart, sweet, ripe, aromatic and rather serene with just a touch of zestiness. Lovely length and much charm. Anne Krebiehl. |
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2022 |
Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Kabinett (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$328.97 |
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| VM 93 (10/2023): The 2022 Riesling Graacher Himmelreich Kabinett has the slightest crackle of flint on the shy nose. Fennel and nutmeg appear before orange peel joins in. The palate is light, with a lovely, smooth, lithe backdrop of sweet mandarin and clementine. The 2022 is tart, sweet, ripe, aromatic and rather serene with just a touch of zestiness. Lovely length and much charm. Anne Krebiehl. |
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2017 |
Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Spatlese (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$507.99 |
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2021 |
Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Spatlese (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$334.97 |
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2012 |
Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Auslese (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$507.97 |
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| VM 92 (12/2013): Pale golden yellow. Candied papaya, persimmon, clove and a vague hint of smoky botrytis on the nose. Luscious, creamy peach nectar flavor is nicely framed and accented by a splash of salty minerality. Richer and denser than the spätlese, showing excellent length, but not necessarily much better. Joel B. Payne. |
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2018 |
Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Auslese (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$442.97 |
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2019 |
Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Auslese (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$502.99 |
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| WA 97 (10/2020): The 2019 Wehlener Sonnenuhr Auslese is deep and intense on the nicely reductive yet concentrated and spicy-mineral nose that reveals a flinty/crunchy slate aroma with generous but elegant and refined fruit and subtle grapefruit aromas. On the palate, this Auslese displays a fine raisin aroma of perfectly ripe and overripe Riesling grapes, whereas the textured is highly finessed and beautifully balanced. This is impossible to spit, as the crystalline acidity is so delicate and interwoven with the fruit and texture of this persistently salty beauty. |
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2020 |
Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Auslese (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$357.99 |
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2021 |
Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Auslese (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$435.99 |
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2022 |
Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Auslese (1.5 L) |
$179 |
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| VM 94 (10/2023): The 2022 Riesling Wehlener Sonnenuhr Auslese opens with a notion of baked peach, especially baked peach skin, aromatic, slightly caramelized with concentrated fruit. Peach compote sweeps onto the palate, ripe and still with bite, just as cooked peach flesh appears, expressive and sweet but not overdone. This entire flight is a lesson in restraint. The long finish and aftertaste are tempered with citrus, corralling that expressive peach. Lovely, restrained, elegant. Anne Krebiehl. |
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2001 |
Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Auslese Goldkapsel Signs of Old Seepage; Lightly Scuffed Label |
$225 |
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2012 |
Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Auslese Goldkapsel (12x375ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$540.99 |
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2018 |
Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Auslese Goldkapsel (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$907.99 |
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2019 |
Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Auslese Goldkapsel (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$774.99 |
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2020 |
Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Auslese Goldkapsel (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$691.97 |
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2015 |
Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Kabinett (3x1.5L)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$373.99 |
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| VM 93 (6/2017): Apple and quince are coolingly laced with mint and wintergreen (decidedly reminiscent of the corresponding Bernkasteler) but also, quite unexpectedly, joined by banana, mango and muskmelon for an unusually exotic expression of Wehlener Sonnenuhr Kabinett that is as luscious in the mouth as it is heady on the nose. Lily and heliotrope contribute to the wine’s head-turning aromatic intensity and their inner-mouth perfume to the allure of a subtly creamy palate. For all of its unusually advanced sense of ripeness for a Kabinett, this projects remarkable delicacy and a focused sense of stone, fruit and floral interface in its lingering finish. (The Prüms are fond of observing that their Wehlener Sonnenuhr is usually slower to show itself than others of their wines, but that certainly isn’t the case with this 2015.) David Schildnecht. |
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2019 |
Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Kabinett (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$345.99 |
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| WA 94 (10/2020): The 2019 Wehlener Sonnenuhr Kabinett offers a clear and delicate bouquet of very fine slate and bright, perfectly ripe fruit aromas. Round and piquant on the palate, this is another filigreed and crystalline Kabinett with an intense, compactand very promising finish. The sweetness is delicate and well-countered by the mineral grip and salinity. Tasted at the domain in September 2020. |
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2020 |
Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Kabinett (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$356.99 |
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2021 |
Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Kabinett (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$325.97 |
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2021 |
Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Kabinett (3x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$195.99 |
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2022 |
Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Kabinett (1.5 L) |
$99.99 |
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| VM 93 (10/2023): The 2022 Riesling Wehlener Sonnenuhr Kabinett does not really want to show itself on the nose. But the palate presents immediate clarity and poise. This is laser-straight elegance, stone and citrus. This shows such pedigree, such clarity. So poised, so mouth-watering, so stony. Anne Krebiehl. |
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2022 |
Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Kabinett (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$326.99 |
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| VM 93 (10/2023): The 2022 Riesling Wehlener Sonnenuhr Kabinett does not really want to show itself on the nose. But the palate presents immediate clarity and poise. This is laser-straight elegance, stone and citrus. This shows such pedigree, such clarity. So poised, so mouth-watering, so stony. Anne Krebiehl. |
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2010 |
Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Spatlese (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$407.97 |
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| WA 91 (2/2012): Emphasizing the bitter side of the vanilla bean as well as toasted nuts and cyanic apple pit, the Prum 2010 Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Spatlese A.P. #14 thereby generates a fascinating contrast with its apple jelly and honey richness. Alkaline and wet stone notes - beginning already in the nose - enhance that contrast. Nut oils, honey and apple reprise in a lusciously lingering finish. Less charming, refreshing, exuberant, or focused in finish than the corresponding Graacher, this Wehlener will almost certainly need a longer time to show its true potential; but one can rest assured based on one of Germany’s most certifiable track-records that at least a quarter century of pleasure is in the offing here. (I did not have opportunity to taste the corresponding auction cuvee, A.P. #26.) |
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2015 |
Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Spatlese (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$448.97 |
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| VM 91 (6/2017): Apple and quince are garlanded with honeysuckle and heliotrope in another supportively sweet, feather-light yet lush Bert Selbach Spätlese. The vivid fruit juiciness and inner-mouth floral perfume persist on a long finish that is at once soothing and refreshing. David Schildknecht. |
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2017 |
Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Spatlese (3x1.5L)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$433.97 |
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2018 |
Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Spatlese (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$373.99 |
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| WA 95 (10/2020): The 2018 Wehlener Sonnenuhr Spätlese is coolish, precise and flinty on the elegant and complex yet always bright and seductive nose that offers lush and precise white stone fruit aromas. Intense and refined on the palate, this is a dense, highly elegant, tightly structured and sustainable Spätlese with a long and stimulatingly salty finish. A fabulous and serious WSU Spätlese. Tasted at the domain in September 2020. |
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2018 |
Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Spatlese (3x1.5L)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$433.97 |
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| WA 95 (10/2020): The 2018 Wehlener Sonnenuhr Spätlese is coolish, precise and flinty on the elegant and complex yet always bright and seductive nose that offers lush and precise white stone fruit aromas. Intense and refined on the palate, this is a dense, highly elegant, tightly structured and sustainable Spätlese with a long and stimulatingly salty finish. A fabulous and serious WSU Spätlese. Tasted at the domain in September 2020. |
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2019 |
Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Spatlese (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$373.97 |
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2020 |
Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Spatlese (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$398.99 |
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2021 |
Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Spatlese (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$373.97 |
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2022 |
Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Spatlese (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$383.97 |
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| JS 96 (12/2023): Here’s a very classic Mosel Spatlese with exactly the combination of richness, elegance and delicacy that makes this category unique. Such delicate white peach and sliced pear, rose and honeysuckle aromas. Very long finish that is as succulent as it is refined. You just want to linger there for as long as you can. Drink or hold. |
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| Josef Rosch |
2003 |
Trittenheimer Apotheke Riesling Auslese*** (500 ML) Lightly Scuffed Label |
$99 |
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| Willi Schaefer |
2003 |
Graacher Domprobst Riesling Auslese Goldkapsel (375 ML) Signs of Seepage |
$49 |
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2011 |
Graacher Domprobst Riesling Spatlese No. 10 |
$59 |
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| WA 95 (4/2013): “This is the classical Spatlese,” says Willi Schaefer by way of introducing his 2011 Graacher Domprobst Riesling Spatlese A.P. #10. A hint of yeastiness largely gives way to seductive scents of rowan and honeysuckle, strikingly mineral suggestions of salinity, alkalinity and wet stone, lightly-poached, vanilla-tinged apple and pear, as well as slightly sweet, pecan and pistachio-like nut oil. The layering of flavors here reminds me of a luscious, buttery, tangy and subtly piquant apple and nut strudel (albeit without raisins – for those, see the A.P. #5) – but a nearly weightless one! The combination of richness with soaring levity and mouthwatering purity of fruit, not to mention interactive complexity promise to persist not only past the point where you can resist the next sip, but also for the next two or three decades. |
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| Schafer-Frohlich |
2015 |
Bockenauer Felseneck Riesling Grosses Gewaches (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$744.99 |
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| VM 97 (11/2017): Lime and grapefruit, crabapple and red raspberry in the nose anticipate the bright, juicy refreshment that then arrives on a gripping, energetic but alluring, satin-textured palate. Not that mineral complexity fails to be anticipated in the aromas. Salts, alkali, iodine and stone engage in kaleidoscopic finishing interplay with intense fruit in a mouthwatering, shimmering, vibratory finish. The sheer sense of energy and penetration here are remarkable. They raised gooseflesh for this taster, and would almost certainly have left my tonsils – if I had any – quivering in synchrony with my tongue. Imagine the future that awaits this wine! David Schildknecht |
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2018 |
Bockenauer Felseneck Riesling Grosses Gewaches (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$464.99 |
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JS 99 (9/2019): Very pure slate here, this is something unique. The elevated, steep and stony site has such strength of character, delivered with such purity. Gun smoke, gunflint and very fine fragrance with a streak of fresh lemons. So fine. The palate has a super fine and elegant feel, floating ballet-like over the palate. Such elegance and power. The finesse and length is really ethereal. Yellow-grapefruit juice and pith here. Wildly succulent at the long, salty finish. What a thrilling wine. Drink or hold.
WA 97 (10/2019): Bright and clear fruit aromas intermix with flint stone and herbal aromas to open the spectacularly deep, dense and coolish, extremely mineral 2018 Felseneck Riesling GG. Very intense, rich and concentrated on the silky-textured and refreshing palate, this is a crystalline and silky yet dense and enormously mineral, tightly woven, dry and piquant Riesling with remarkable tannin structure and sustainable salinity. This Felseneck needs years to open up and also the biggest glass you can find. Tasted during the VDP Grosse Lage preview in Wiesbaden in August and two times at home in October 2019.
WS 96 (6/2020): A very expressive, medium-bodied version, with lots of flesh, offset by powerful acidity that gives this ample energy and drive. Notes of jasmine, hops, yellow plum and kumquat impart charm midpalate, while hints of shaved ginger and lemon oil linger on the long, well-defined finish. Best from 2023 through 2036. 500 cases made, 56 cases imported.
VM 96 (6/2020): Zesty lime and struck flint pungency are joined on the nose by intimations of white currant and white peach as well as of alkaline, saline sea breeze. The midpalate is firm but polished, dense and full (at around 13% alcohol), yet exhibits an improbable sense of lift, with crunchy, taut-fruit freshness and cheek-pinching brightness such as one seldom witnesses from this vintage. The superbly focused, preternaturally persistent finish is vibrantly tongue-tingling, crushed-stone-saturated, mouthwateringly saline and refreshingly loaded with primary juiciness. Yet for all of the brightness on display here, there are also resonant, deep, piquant nuttiness and a low-toned stoniness suggestive of tectonic tension. “Based on my impressions in autumn [2018],” said Fröhlich – lovely though he claimed the harvest was – “you could never have gotten me to believe that we would end up with a wine like this.” And talk about the scarcely believable: Fröhlich left out of this cuvee a roughly thousand-bottle lot of Felseneck that was due to spend a second winter in cask, and which he thinks represents his finest dry wine of the vintage. Like its Stromberg counterpart but to an even more striking degree, this bottling illustrates a point on which I elaborated when introducing the Schäfer-Fröhlich 2017s – namely, that Bockenau’s top slopes take a back seat to none on the Nahe.David Schildknecht. |
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2019 |
Bockenauer Felseneck Riesling Grosses Gewaches |
$159 |
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2019 |
Bockenauer Felseneck Riesling Grosses Gewaches (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$427.99 |
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2020 |
Bockenauer Felseneck Riesling Grosses Gewaches (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$427.99 |
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| WA 98 (8/2022): 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, fresh and flinty and a picture-book Riesling for the favored style of Tim Fröhlich. This is as if the ocean was rushing over this vineyard that bears so much salt and power. In this case, its power and concentration shout for a carafe or a decade of bottle aging. For now, I prefer the purity and crystallinity of the Stromberg, but in the long run, this Felseneck could be unrivalled. |
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2021 |
Bockenauer Felseneck Riesling Grosses Gewaches (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$693.97 |
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| WA 99-100 (8/2022): The 2021 Felseneck GG is a wild expression of crushed flint and slate stones, herbs, green leaves, chamomile and lime zests along with iodine notes of lemon juice. Full-bodied but rich and very elegant on the palate, this is a pure, crystalline, sharp and dense laser sword of a dry Riesling that many might call too ascetic for now, but the richness, intensity, concentration and balance are just perfect to guarantee long bottle aging. The tannins are fine and intermingled with salts and extract, power and richness and the character of crushed stones. Very long, intense, concentrated and rich, this is a legend in the making. Tasted as a sample at the domaine in July 2022. |
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2022 |
Bockenauer Felseneck Riesling Grosses Gewaches (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$580.99 |
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2021 |
Bockenauer Felseneck Riesling Trocken |
$78.20 |
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2021 |
Felseneck Riesling Auslese (375 ML) |
$39.99 |
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2022 |
Felseneck Riesling Auslese (375 ML) |
$49.99 |
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2022 |
Felseneck Riesling Kabinett |
$43.99 |
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2023 |
Fruhlingsplatzchen Riesling Grosses Gewachs |
$77.89 |
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2014 |
Schlossbockelheimer Kupfergrube Riesling Grosses Gewachs (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$464.99 |
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2015 |
Schlossbockelheimer Kupfergrube Riesling Grosses Gewachs (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$486.99 |
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2017 |
Schlossbockelheimer Kupfergrube Riesling Grosses Gewachs (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$464.99 |
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2012 |
Schlossbockelheimer Kupfergrube Riesling Spatlese Trocken |
$47 |
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2023 |
Stromberg Riesling Grosses Gewaches |
$83.99 |
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2020 |
Maximin Grunhauser Abstberg Riesling Grosses Gewachs (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$522.97 |
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2018 |
Maximin Grunhauser Abstberg Riesling Kabinett (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$274.99 |
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2020 |
Maximin Grunhauser Abstberg Riesling Kabinett (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$274.99 |
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2015 |
Maximin Grunhauser Herrenberg Riesling Auslese (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$402.99 |
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2018 |
Maximin Grunhauser Herrenberg Riesling Auslese (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$402.99 |
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2019 |
Maximin Grunhauser Herrenberg Riesling Kabinett (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$329.97 |
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| WA 93-94 (8/2020): The 2019 Maximin Grünhaus Riesling Herrenberg Kabinett is bright and clear on the delicate, precise and flinty, super finessed nose. Round and juicy on the palate, this is a delicate, piquant and sensual Kabinett with a filigreed structure and a long, intense, stimulatingly salty finish. After 2018, this is another great (or even greater) Kabinett from Maximin von Grünhaus, even though it drinks rather like a feinherb Spätlese in the classic, quaffable style. |
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1983 |
Avelsbacher Hammerstein Riesling Eiswein (375 ML) |
$159 |
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| Weingut Gunther Steinmetz |
2010 |
Wintricher Geierslay Riesling Sur Lie |
$49 |
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| WA 92 (12/2011): From old vines in an extraordinary site about which I have written in detail in issue 192, Steinmetz’s June-bottled, tank-raised 2010 Wintricher Geierslay Riesling Spatlese Sur Lie boasts a mere 10% alcohol thanks to having left behind 28 grams of residual sugar, which was around ten less than I guessed (and I’m generally pretty good at guessing these things), such is the efficacy of 11 grams of acidity not to mention almost freakishly high extract. But the performance one gets here seems utterly poised and naturally balanced rather than in any way extreme. A seeming suffusion of salt, iodine, shrimp shell reduction, peach kernel, and crushed stone mingles saliva-inducingly with fresh, juicily-refreshing lime, white grapefruit, and white peach on a subtly silken palate, finishing with vibrantly intense mineral and fruit interactivity. This terrific value ought to perform well for at least another 12-15 years. Incidentally, Steinmetz plans to replant parts of the Geierslay that aren’t even in Riesling now with Nik Weis’s Schlangengraben vine selection. |
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| Weingut Peter Terges |
1983 |
Trierer Deutschherrenberg Riesling Eiswein (375 ML) Signs of Old Seepage; Bin-Soiled Label; Lightly Scuffed Label |
$195 |
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| Dr. H. Thanisch (Erben-Thanisch) |
2015 |
Bernkasteler Doctor Riesling Kabinett |
$49 |
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| WA 92 (4/2017): Thanisch's 2015 Berncasteler Doctor Riesling Kabinett is very clear and still reductive on the nose, with flinty sulfur notes, bright fruit aromas and very good definition. Round, lush and juicy but also fine, mineral and salty, this is a delicate, filigreed and elegant Kabinett with a good mineral structure and a mouthwatering salty finish. A classic! |
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| Van Volxem |
2018 |
Altenberg Riesling Grosses Gewachs (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$317.99 |
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2020 |
Altenberg Riesling Grosses Gewachs (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$317.99 |
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| VM 94 (5/2022): The 2020 Riesling Kanzemer Altenberg Alte Reben Grosses Gewächs leads with lavender, iris, orange blossom, white peach and lime scents that soar from the glass. The feel is seductively silken, and the mouth fills with luscious pit fruit, animatingly bright citrus, wafting floral perfume, and the sort of mouthwatering animal, mineral and herbal savor akin to raw oyster innards that was also present in this collection’s Scharzhofberger Grosses Gewächs. The vibrant, invigorating finish is bell-clear and focused, while not forgetting Riesling’s fundamental duty to refresh. 5/2022. |
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2021 |
Bockstein Riesling Grosses Gewachs (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$350.99 |
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2020 |
Goldberg Riesling Grosses Gewachs (6x1.5L)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$428.99 |
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2021 |
Saar Riesling |
$25.99 |
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2021 |
Scharzhofberger Riesling Grosses Gewachs (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$476.99 |
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2021 |
Scharzhofberger Riesling Grosses Gewachs (6x1.5L)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$1,003.99 |
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2020 |
Schonfels Riesling Grosses Gewachs (6x750ML)
ETA 90-120 Days; No cancellations or returns. This item may be subject to tariffs. |
$476.99 |
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| Weiser-Kunstler |
2013 |
Enkircher Ellergrub Riesling Auslese Slightly Depressed Cork |
$95 |
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