2017 Riesling Wine

jamessuckling.com, 96 points: This is like a top GG, but for a friendly price. Very deep and complex wine with power that is totally underplayed. The balance is near perfect and the finish is super-long. From organically grown grapes. Long aging...

jamessuckling.com, 98 points: Hold on to your hat, because here comes a Rheingau revelation! Enormously vibrant with tart peach, gooseberry and lemon-balm aromas. This is close to the maximum expression and energy that the Rheingau is capable of. So...

jamessuckling.com, 94 points: A stunning, bone-dry riesling for this moderate price level! Fine nose of sliced pears and honeysuckle. Stunning freshness and purity on the medium-full palate. The finish is subtlety reminiscent of Mosel. From...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 94 points: The 2017 Graacher Himmelreich Spätlese is deep, clear and flinty on the fascinating, elegant and complex nose. It is lush, precise, piquant and refined on the palate, with more transparency, freshness and crunchy slate...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 96 points: The 2017 Bernkasteler Badstube Auslese is very intense and upfront on the reductive, flinty and even coolish nose. Extremely lush and round on the palate, this is a concentrated, silky-textured and incredibly juicy...

jamessuckling.com, 94 points: This is no top GG for its weight or power, but it's got enormous, herbal intensity and super minerally acidity that keeps pumping out the flavors at the very fresh finish. From organically grown grapes. Fair'n Green...

jamessuckling.com, 93 points: A juicy and elegant wine that turns really dry, thanks to the serious minerality that powers the long, delicate finish. From organically grown grapes. Fair'n Green certification. Drink or hold.

jamessuckling.com, 92 points: Generous fruit-salad character and floral notes make this the easiest of this producer's dry rieslings to understand and to enjoy right now. Yet, behind the juiciness, the palate has quite a firm structure and the finish...

Vinous, 90 points: Meyer lemon, persimmon and raw ginger on the nose presage a palate that is zesty, incisively tingling and piquantly seed-tinged, albeit also slightly grainy and puckering. Thankfully, there is an abundance of sheer citric...

jamessuckling.com, 95 points: Stunning nectarine, peach and papaya character, together with lovely succulence and enormous vitality, make this a breathtaking sweet Spätlese with a finish that’s straight as a laser beam and super-clean. From...

jamessuckling.com, 95 points: A stunning single-vineyard wine with a mirabelle, lemon and spice nose that's just beginning to open up. On the palate, however, its very racy and minerally with great concentration and a very long, graceful finish. Drink...