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:The Schlossgut Diel vineyards, castle and winery are of great historical significance. The winery was purchased by the Diel family in 1802 from the Baron Dalberg, who had managed to prevent its confiscation by Napoleon’s troops in...

Founded in 1875, Weingut Robert Weil is considered to be one of the Rheingau’s younger wine estates. It is located in the heart of Kiedrich, a village first documented in the year 950. Kiedrich Turmberg and Kiedrich Gräfenberg, the...

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...

Shipping Included on 6 Bottles or More Every wine fridge needs to have a few chilled bottles of exactly this sort of wine on hand for those inevitable white wine emergencies that seem to crop up almost daily.  Be prepared, we always say!  The...

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...

Vinous: 93 Points  Cheesy fermentative overtones give way to a site-typical amalgam of fresh apple garlanded in honeysuckle and heliotrope. This is another of those Prüm Kabinetts that is watery in a positive sense of that word, combining...

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...

Tasting Notes: A custom bottling made for me, this is perfect. Perfect Riesling, perfect food-wine, perfectly clear and polished and tasty and interesting. Lemon flavor without lemon tartness; like a meyer, part-way to a peach. I’ve had a ton of...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate:  98 Points The 2016 Nahe Riesling Felseneck "GG" is super pure, precise, crystalline and flinty on the nose and palate, a great expression of the slatey terroir. There is a fascinating blueberry and floral expression...

Tasting Notes:  A custom bottling made for me, this is perfect. Perfect Riesling, perfect food-wine, perfectly clear and polished and tasty and interesting. Lemon flavor without lemon tartness; like a meyer, part-way to a peach. I’ve had a ton...

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,...