The 2020 Oberhauser Brucke Riesling Spatlese is super clear, refined and fresh on the rather coolish but fruit-intense and elegant, slightly flinty nose. Salty-piquant and highly stimulating on the palate, this is a gorgeous, very elegant and juicy riesli...
The 2020 Wehlener Sonnenuhr Auslese is intense and complex on the still introverted but complex nose that shows clear, bright fruit aromas (baby pineapple) intermingled with fine, flinty slate notes. What an aristocratic appearance! Round, crystalline and...
Stunning nose of exotic flowers with fine apricot and exotic-fruit aromas (mangosteen). Super-succulent, yet so pristine and precise, this is a staggeringly refreshing Auslese. Brain-rattling concentration and vitality at the extremely long finish. Very l...
The 2023 Graacher Domprobst Riesling Kabinett #3 opens with a clear and coolish, very precise and flinty as well as vegetal bouquet of dark, crushed slate. Very elegant and mouthwatering on the palate, with lively, mineral acidity and stimulating salinity...
The 2023 Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Kabinett opens with substantial depth and a brilliant bouquet of wet slate. The fruit is intense but not dominating, thanks to the flintiness and savoriness of the Himmelreich terroir. On the palate, this is a mouth-...
The 2024 Riesling Graacher Himmelreich Kabinett still trembles with a little reduction, underneath, a tender apricot aroma fills out into white and yellow peach. That stone-fruited tenderness and intensity is absolutely present on the palate where hori...
The 2020 Graacher Domprobst Riesling Spatlese #5 offers a deep and coolish, flinty and rather spicy more than fruity nose with piquant lemon and grapefruit as well as ripe and fine raisin aromas. Round, lush and precise on the filigreed palate, this is a ...
Willi Schaefer's 2020 Graacher Domprobst Riesling Spatlese #10 is deep, fine and complex on the still reductive yet clear, dense and elegant nose. Lush and piquant on the palate, this is a very fine and finely concentrated, intense and persistent Domprobs...
The 2020 Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Spatlese is clear yet pretty reductive on the nose and doesn't yet sing if poured straight from the just opened bottle. The palate is crystalline, fine and lush, very elegant and complex and reveals fine and salty gr...