Robert Parker The Wine Advocate: Harvested on December 19 and pressed until on the 20th juice finally began running, the 2009 Maximin Grunhauser Herrenberg Riesling Eiswein represents what flowed later and under less solidly-frozen conditions. Candied...

Importer's Note:“Taubennest” is the cadaster name for the best parcel in Oelberg. And this wine taught me a valuable lesson. What follows is my “tasting note,” in which I do what tasters do, deconstruct and analyze the flavors of...

A Pinot noir made from manually-harvested grapes which undergo a spontaneous fermentation in open wooden barrels. The malolactic fermentation takes place in barrique. This Pinot displays a deep red fruity flavour with a complex character; fine and...

Importer's Note:The pick among Jakob’s ‘16s, and one of my own personal must-buys, I find this to be a miracle of Riesling. Kertz is like an exceedingly rare and difficult orchid, that blooms every nine years but when it does there’s...

Winery Notes: The historic Karthäuserhof estate is located just before the confluence of the Ruwer and Mosel rivers, nestled along a side valley adjacent to the small village of Eitelsbach. Recent findings indicate that the spot was a settlement...

This bottling replaces the former Estate Riesling, and is produced with fruit harvested from younger vines in both the Herrenberg and Abtsberg vineyards. It is made in the slightly off-dry “feinherb” style (wines have between 9 and 18 grams...

Monzingen is within one of the coldest growing areas of the Nahe, which makes it one of the coldest in German wine country. Werner and his son Frank work only two Erste Lage vineyards in Monzingen (Halenberg and Frühlingsplätzchen), which sit...

Winery Notes:  The 2017 Estate Riesling Trocken is eighty percent from young (10-20 year old) vines in Kapellenberg and Rheinberg, dominated by quartz soils with 20% of the blend coming from very high quality part of a declassified Dorsheim village...

Another singular discovery; who even knew that this usually mundane vineyard could give such wines? Since 2012 there hasn’t been an “ordinary” wine from here. There’s an aroma that tilts in the direction of Sauvignon; redcurrant,...

Winery Notes:  High quality wine doesn’t come on its own. It starts in our vineyards with yield reduction, hand selection of the fruit and a variety of other biodyn-friendly measures throughout the year. In the cellar,...

The Herrenberg vineyard is based more on red slate, than its neighbor Abtsberg. It also has deeper topsoil that retains more water, which can be of great benefit in dry years. The wines are more generous and tend to open up sooner than those of Abtsberg,...

The estate-grown Alte Reben (old vines) Riesling is selected from vines that are 30 to 70 years old. It is a classic Grünhaus Riesling: fruity and racy, with precisely focused blue slate minerality, but with the added intensity and complexity that...

Leistenberg is a very high altitude vineyard that ripens its Riesling only very slowly creating wines of great finesse and minerality- perfect, in fact, for Kabinett level wines. Super classy juice whose just off-dry impression makes it perfect for all...

Every wine fridge needs to have a few bottles of this bracing, aromatic, bone dry Riesling on hand for that metaphorical slap across the face you sometimes need to get you through your day.  If there’s a salad of fresh herbs and some smoked...

Abtsberg wines are characterized by a finely structured, subtle minerality, a racy acidity, generous fruit and great delicacy. They are amongst the longest lived Rieslings of the region. Wines from this vineyard were originally destined for the...