German White Wine

Berge is a parcel of the oldest vines planted to Kieselsandstein located near the top of the Stettener Pulvermächer. Long maceration, elevage in 500L barrel, and then longer aging in bottle before releasing on Jochen’s... Read More

Deliciously aromatic and with a dash of sweetness. Always a match for assertively-spiced dishes, this wine is deep-fruited, sweet, joyful, and full of tea roses and pink grapefruit. Borell-Diehl comes from the rolling hills of... Read More

This dry white is made in the classic style: fresh, crisp, limey, and ridiculously easy to drink. A modest 12% alcohol with great acids and no oak (of course), it beats Pinot Grigio at its own game, offering great refreshment... Read More

The fresh, balanced taste of Clean Slate is achieved by carefully selecting grapes from vineyards throughout the Mosel. The steep blue slate slopes of the Lower Mosel give the wine its minerality while the Middle Mosel provides... Read More

Assembled just a few days before my tasting in July, the barrel sample of 2021 Marienburg GG shows clear, bright and fresh, just-ripe fruit (white peach) combined with a spicy slate tone. In the mouth, it's delicate, light... Read More

This crisp, refreshing Riesling captures the elegant and racy characteristics of steep, slate-soil Mosel vineyards at a very reasonable price. Flavors of crisp green apples and succulent peaches are interwoven with zesty minerality... Read More

Whiffs of steel and smoke introduce this very angular dry Riesling. Sourced from loess soils, it's a mineral-focused wine accented by spine-tingling lime and lemon acidity. An excellent value pairing with oysters or raw fish.... Read More

The top, top wines of 2023 are epic and this, well, is one of them. Compared to the Frühlingsplätzchen, the Halenberg is rounder and riper – at least on first opening. There is more depth, more raw and pushing... Read More

The Nahe is not a mountain stream, but it might be for all we know with Schönleber’s Frühlingsplätzchen’s cool and pure mineral expression, aptly complemented by a gentle herbal freshness. The crushed... Read More

It has always been, for me, the emblematic wine for this laudable estate. And for them, “feinherb” is a drier wine than for many others. If proof was ever needed – and it isn’t, not anymore, despite the... Read More

Very dry at just 3.5g/l RS. Sourced from Gunderloch's three grand cru sites (Rothenberg, Pettenthal, Hipping), spontaneously fermented and vinified in steel. Red slate (roten schiefer) coats the tongue and flourishes its herbal,... Read More

Still very reductive or sulfidic on the precise and elegantly aromatic nose, the 2022 Brauneberger Juffer Riesling Kabinett Feinherb opens without telling much at this early stage. The attack on the palate is racy, but in fact,... Read More

Stefan Steinmetz took over his family’s 120-year-old estate at just 17 years old, following his father’s sudden passing. He has elevated it to benchmark status acquiring some of the top small Mosel vineyards—like... Read More

Matthias Hild farms 5ha in the upper Mosel doing something that makes almost zero financial sense: saving old, terraced parcels of Elbling. In this area, however, it’s important to understand Elbling is something of a religion.... Read More

Roter Riesling is a unique grape that is indigenous to Germany but fell out of favor for the more prominent and less temperamental varietal. Roter (redder) Riesling has started finding traction again as warmer climates have made... Read More

Today Erich and his son Johannes farm almost 13 hectares - with about 1 hectare entirely ungrafted - in the Saar; several of their plots are in highly-prized vineyards, including Euchariusberg, a once-legendary vineyard you could... Read More

A blend from Gernot's four Grand Cru sites of ungrafted vines that are a minimum of 60 years old. A vivid, energetic, deceptively dry Riesling with rich fruit and powerful aromatics (reminiscent of an Alsatian wine).... Read More

The vines here are all over 40 years old (some up into their 70s) and the concentration is there. Yet the 2022 feels to me more juicy, expressive and friendly than the 2020. It also has a very serious structure, chewy and phenolic.... Read More

This is a blend of 60% Chardonnay with 40% Elbling, and to some extent, this is what the wine tastes like. It has the stoney, essential quality, the punch of Elbling with a bit more of the glossy, quinine-like fruit of Chardonnay... Read More

Julian Haart was trained by Riesling legends Egon Müller and Klaus Peter Keller. The young winemaker has quickly established himself as a rising star in the Mosel, crafting precise, mineral-driven wines from his family's... Read More

This is a stunning dry Riesling featuring notes of apple, pear, lemongrass and green tea. It has a delicate palate with nice minerality, complexity and a long finish.

For hundreds of years now, Grüner Silvaner has called Rheinhessen home. And of course this spicy and nimble wine is the go-to when it comes to German “spargel” (asparagus). But we believe it is capable of far... Read More

Sometimes simplicity with a wine, not trying to masquerade or follow fads, is what’s called for – a certain honesty and rusticity so omnipresent it can be soul stirring. Firmly dry, with flashes of melons and cut wet... Read More

This beautifully combines the fruity and zesty elements, delivering great harmony between a vibrant array of peach, dried apricot and white-plum flavors and the firm backbone of acidity. The long, supple finish is well spiced.... Read More