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...

Wine Notes: Basalt is of course (and famously) the soil of the Pechstein, from which this wine indeed hails, but it’s bottled under the name of a small privileged Grosslage because it’s the “item” Müller’s private...

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...

THE MAXIMIN GRÜNHAUS ESTATE: The estate dates back to the 7th century, when it was given to the Benedictine monastery of St. Maximin in Trier. In 1882, it was purchased by an ancestor of Carl and Maximin von Schubert, who are the fifth and sixth...

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...

Winery Notes:  The Estate Spätlese is sourced from parcels that neighbor the estate’s classified single-vineyard sites. It also includes preselection fruit from the top sites, which gives the wine an extra dimension of fruit and mineral...

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,...

Grosse Gewachs is where Riesling crosses Chassagne-Montrachet, and this old vine cuvee from von Winning is fermented and aged in 500 liter casks and cellared for eight months.  Rich, aromatic and intense, it will cellar like white Burgundy and drink...

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,...

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...