Germany

94 points James Suckling"Quite an exotic nose with hints of Thai basil coming through. Quite a firmly structured wine, the restrained citrus and berry fruit carrying this very harmonious dry riesling that has a wonderful interplay of fruit, lees...

94 points James Suckling"I love the discreet mirabelle, spice and angelica notes of this finely chiseled dry Mosel riesling that has plenty of depth and structure, but doesn’t yet announce it loudly. Needs some time to open up, but the classic...

94 points Wine Advocate"The 2021 Niederberg Helden Spätlese opens with a clear, intense, very elegant, savory and classic Spätlese nose, with blue slate splinters in its ripe but crisp and crunchy fruit. Lush and saline on the palate, this is a...

95 points James Suckling"Still very youthful, this is super-elegant with intense slate character. Mini-banana and spring-flower aromas. Very focused on the sleek and silky palate, which you want to linger long over because it lingers long with you at the...

95 points Mosel Fine Wines"The 2020er Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Trocken Uralte Reben GG is a bone-dry wine (with 3 g/l of residual sugar) made from fruit picked on un- grafted vines planted in 1890. It proves rather backward at first and really needs a...

94 points Falstaff"Raspberry blossom honey, heart cherry, slate, herbal candy, dandelion. Very delicate on the palate, very subtle tannins of a slightly adhesive, almost resinous quality, ripe acidity, mineral tones, long-lasting, wide-ranging aromas on...

Vinous Reverie NotesTasting Notes: Brilliant, bright straw yellow. Clear the fruit after the kernel and stone fruit, especially yellow peach, yellow apples and solid pears.Very fresh acid, is pronounced and bold, creamy on the palate and soft...

92 points Wine Spectator 91 points Vinous “Harvested botrytis-free at 90 Oechsle, this was stopped with a bit higher residual sugar and lower alcohol than its Spätlese counterparts, a decision based on the Merkelbachs’ assessment that...

96 points James Suckling"A stunningly elegant and vibrant riesling Kabinett that is packed with white peach and honeysuckle aromas. Succulent on the front of the light-bodied palate, then with a crystalline purity at the finish that takes your breath...

Vinous Reverie NotesReichsrat von Buhl has been a family-owned winery for more than 150 years, and has belonged to the circle of the most prestigious wineries in Germany for just as long. Since it was founded in 1849, Reichsrat von Buhl has made its...

93 points Wine Spectator 92+ points Robert Parker's Wine Advocate"From vines up to 120 years old, the 2018 Lorchhäuser Seligmacher Riesling offers an intense and open bouquet of super ripe and dried white seed and raisin fruits intermixed with...

95 points James Suckling"So elegant and refined in spite of the generous peach fruit, this has a freshness like the first days of spring as the first green grass and flowers appear. What a precise balance of racy acidity and floral delicacy this has on...