No. Not a typo.  This gorgeous, dry, pedigreed Mosel Riesling Grosse Gewachs is, indeed, eight years old!  And the price isn’t a typo either.  Sometimes it’s just better to be lucky than good, and I just happened to be in the...

40% Riesling, 20% Chardonnay, 15% Gewurztraminer, 15% Kerner, 10% Sauvignon Blanc

Darting’s gorgeous Riesling from the Pfalz in Germany is just a beautiful wine.  While not exactly sweet, it’s not dry either.  Call it ‘halbtroken’ or half-dry. There is a pleasing...

2003 Karthauserhof Riesling Spatlese Karthauserhofberg

Wine Country: Austria Wine Varietal: Riesling Fans of FX Pichler know how good these wines are and why they’re so much in demand.  Purely defined fruit, great depth of flavor; truly spectacular!

This winery is one of the pioneers in dry-style Riesling and this one features such lovely fruit and really fine acidity. The latter frames an impressive set of citrus-infused Riesling aromatics like chamomile, dry acacia honey, Meyer lemon, lime peel,...

 “Burgundy has Grand Crus, Bordeaux has First Growths, and Germany has  Grosses Gewächs. These bone-dry, single-vineyard marvels are bottled in  the smallest of quantities and greedily snatched up around the globe. If  you...

Winery's Notes - Incredibly vibrant and expressive on the nose with layers of lemon flesh, lime juice, apples and grapefruit at the forefront. Elevated and lifted notes of lemon myrtle, sweet jasmine, kaffir lime leaf, coriander seed and sea spray...

We love these bone-dry Austrian Rieslings.  Hiedler’s is penetrating, persistent and utterly delicious.  Its laser-like acidity will do wonders alongside a right-from-the-fryer schnitzel but we love it with oysters, fresh, delicate fish...

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...

Wine Country: ItalyWine Subregion: Trentino-Alto AdigeWine Varietal: Riesling

Wine Country: GermanyWine Subregion: Mosel Saar RuwerWine Sub-subregion: TrockenWine Varietal: Riesling

2020 Karthauserhof Riesling Eitelsbacher Alta Reben 1.5 Liter 

Importer's Notes:  The Rheinberg kabinett comes entirely from the quartz dominated higher sections of the Rheinberg hill, facing south east. Vines are around 25 years old with much of the vineyard planted in the 1990s. Harvested in the beginning of...

Albert Boxler is, of course, one of Alsace’s most exclusive and famous producers. The venerable Boxler name has been a fixture on the landscape of Niedermorschwihr in the Haut-Rhin area of Alsace since 1673 when Jean Boxler’s ancestors moved there from...

Wine Country: Austria Wine Varietal: Riesling

Been a while since we’ve had some good ol’ fashioned Aussie treasures to trumpet but Jim Barry’s Jane Ferrari’s visit last Friday gave us a chance to sink our noses into two truly wonderful values from the Clare Valley.  This...

Wine Country: GermanyWine Subregion: NaheWine Varietal: Riesling

Visiting the half-timbered scenic town of Bernkastel is a pilgrimage for any traveler interested in the beautiful and history of Germany.  This gorgeous medieval village is stunning in every way and, surrounded as it is by some of Germany’s...

Visiting the half-timbered scenic town of Bernkastel is a pilgrimage for any traveler interested in the beautiful and history of Germany.  This gorgeous medieval village is stunning in every way and, surrounded as it is by some of Germany’s...