White Wine from Bockenau

Jancis Robinson's Purple Pages, 95 points: Cask sample. From 50+ year old vines. Analysis is similar to the non Goldkapsel bottling but all the difference is from the plot (darker slate, apparently). Intense and very sweet and honeyed. Deeper minerality...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 96 points: 96+ Coming from partly ungrafted vines down to 50 years, the 2015 Stromberg Riesling GG comes from the steepest and stoniest porphyry vineyards of the domaine. It opens deep, clear and flinty on the nose, with a very pure...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 94 points: The 2013 Felseneck Spätlese Gold Capsule starts with a fascinating ripe and aromatic bouquet of lime and lemon perfume spiced with crushed slate and some herbal aromas. This rich and enormously juicy and piquant Spätlese...

Jancis Robinson's Purple Pages, 96 points: I do keep mentioning the early herbaceous exuberance of spontaneous fermentation in Fröhlich’s Grosse Gewächse, as it would be unfair not give the whole picture, but with regard to the Felsenberg, minerality is the true...

Antonio Galloni's Vinous, 96 points: The Fröhlichs’ signature site has never, in my experience, faced such formidable competition from their other Grosse Gewächse (which are also more numerous than ever, thanks to the post-2012 inclusion of Stromberg) but it...

Antonio Galloni's Vinous, 93 points: Picked in an especially exposed parcel a day before the “regular” Spätlese was brought in, this bottling exhibits a surprisingly cool note of mint and a bite of cress to accent its luscious, pure apple and white peach...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 95 points: I scored the 2013 Kupfergrube GG lower in August last year but when I tasted it again with the other Grosses Gewächs Rieslings of the estate it was significantly better developed offering a very clear bouquet with herbal...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 94 points: The 2014 Kupfergrube Riesling trocken GG displays a deep, dark and flinty bouquet full of stones, herbs and purity, and some ripe Riesling berry flavors. Round and very elegant on the palate, this is a deep, intense...

Antonio Galloni's Vinous, 95 points: From 50-year-old vines that once belonged to one of Tim Fröhlich’s uncles, and a ruggedly and meagerly rocky volcanic soil, this Grosses Gewächs delivers, as its author promised, a sleeker, slimmer effect than those from...

jamessuckling.com, 96 points: A mad, smoky and radically herbal nose makes this something you will either sign up for or reject out of hand. That doesn't matter though, because after another year or two of ageing it will become much clearer that this...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 96 points: Unapproachable, cool and aristocratic on the nose, the 2013 Stromberg GG reveals very deep, stony, flinty and mineral-scented aromas of limes and grapefruit on the nose. Deep and almost succulent yet refined and also...