2013 White Wine

James Halliday, 98 points: 55% machine-picked at night, 45% hand-picked, 64% cultured yeast, 36% wild yeast, fermented in and matured for 11 months in new French oak. It is supremely elegant and finely balanced, and has absorbed the new oak in a...

jamessuckling.com, 98 points: The aromas of stone, lime and flowers are amazing. Full body, great depth of fruit and tightness. Muscular yet agile. It is a subtle wine showing great complexity. Intense mineral. Tightly wound. Made from biodynamically...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 94 points: The straw-colored 2013 Rudesheimer Berg Roseneck Riesling Trocken Katerloch from the Katerloch parcel is clear, precise and concentrated on the nose where scents of roses and lychees lead aromas of limes, grapefruit and...

Wine Spectator, 92 points: Clean and pure nectarine, tangerine, citrus blossom and white peach notes mingle amid the core of pithy flavors, touching on fruit skin textures and tannins. Mounts a strong finish, turning to a chalky limestone aftertaste.

Wine Enthusiast, 97 points: This is a beautiful wine with elegant fruits that reflect a strong sense of minerality. It is crisp, although that is just a surface quality to a wine that has such depth. Toast flavors round out the intense fruits...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 95 points: The 2013 Chardonnay Stone Cote Vineyard (572 cases produced) is fashioned from a specific block of vines that Don Hartford farms in the well-known Durell Vineyard. Fermented with indigenous yeast, it exhibits lots of...

Wine Spectator, 94 points: Firm and focused, this is filled with powerful flavors of dark currant, white raspberry, melon and red peach, all loaded with minerality. Finely textured overall, with an explosively fresh finish of tarragon and slate...

Wine Spectator, 97 points: Ripe and enticing, with lemon curd, apricot gelée and nectarine flavors bursting forth, backed by light citrus oil, blanched almond and salted butter notes. Shows a flash of green tea through the finish. Exotic in...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 95 points: The 2013 Chardonnay Clare comes 100% from the Hyde Vineyard and represents a 22-year-old Wente clone of Chardonnay. This wine displays more buttery brioche notes, hints of tangerine oil and lemon blossom, a subtle...

View From The Cellar, 92 points: 92+ The Folatières bottling from the Drouhin family has always been one of their consistently excellent wines, and the 2013 is another fine success. The wine offers up lovely shape and refinement on both the nose and...

Wine Enthusiast, 95 points: This is the coolest and freshest of the Grand Cru vineyards. The wine is tight, steely with a nervy core of acidity that gives it a textured, structured character. It is full of energy, crisp, packed with apples and...

Burghound, 92 points: (BH89-92 points) A hint of sulfur does not materially detract from the ripe and fresh nose that is comprised by notes of apple, acacia blossom and pear scents. There is a lovely underlying tension to the well-detailed and...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 94 points: 94+ Slightly reduced on the clear, mineral and precisely depicted nose, at the moment the sweet 2013 Zeltinger Sonnenuhr Spätlese shows hints of rather darker fruits along with lemon and orange flavors. The wine is rich...

Burghound, 92 points: (BH89-92 points) A cool and reasonably elegant nose offers up notes of white flowers, lemon zest, apple and a hint of petrol. There is both good volume and generosity to the delicious flavors that possess solid...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC, 94 points: (ST92-94 points) (13.2% natural alcohol, the highest of these 2013s): Bright green-tinged yellow. Sexy high-pitched perfume of lemon zest, minerals, spearmint and lavender. Very rich and tactile but bracing too, offering...