Very dense and compact, this giant sauvignon blanc opens very slowly. The pronounced rosemary, thyme and sage character takes it light years from any of the stereotypes for this grape. Very tightly wound, with enormous...

Notes of ripe apricot hit the nose. An herbal edge of moss and fern adds lovely aroma. The palate is bright and tight with freshness but soon breaks open to reveal all of that lovely fruit and the intense, pervasive...

(97+ points) The 2017 Welschriesling Trockenbeerenauslese No 9 Zwischen den Seen is fresh, precise and concentrated on the spicy nose, with its characteristic lime peel, white peach and apricot aromas. Concentrated, sweet...

The 2017 Scheurebe Trockenbeerenauslese No 8 Zwischen den Seen is intense, fresh and piquant on the concentrated and spicy, still closed nose that is reminiscent of anchovies, pink grapefruit and candied lemon zests at...

Vinified in small barrels, the 2017 Grande Cuvée Trockenbeerenauslese No 6 Nouvelle Vague blends Welschriesling and Chardonnay in equal parts. The bouquet is already fascinating: pure, deep, precise and complex in its...

From the Sausal's schist soils and Polz's highest vineyard at 500 meters above sea level, the 2018 Sauvignon Blanc Ried Theresienhöhe –1STK– Therese is a stainless-fermented terroir wine of great substance, grip and...

From the coolish, slowly ripening cru between Pfaffenberg and Loibenberg, the 2018 Ried Steinertal Grüner Veltliner Smaragd opens with a clear and coolish, flinty bouquet of white and greenish fruits and spicy phenolic...

The 2017 Ried Rossberg Morillon is from a very calcareous marl soil rich in iron and manganese. Vinified in old Burgundian pièces, this is a deep, rich and round, wonderfully aromatic yet pure and flinty Chardonnay/Pinot...

Fermented and matured in stainless steel for 18 months, the 2017 Scheurebe Trockenbeerenauslese No 1 Zwischen den Seen offers a beautiful raisin and pink grapefruit aroma that has rarely been so precise and so delicate...

(93+ points) From gravelly soils in a Gamlitz vineyard at 510 meters above sea level and aged for one year in large oak, the 2018 Ried Sernau König Sauvignon Blanc opens with a pure and spicy, very elegant and fresh nose...

97+ Bottled in late April 2019, the 2017 Ried Zieregg Sauvignon Blanc offers a deep and coolish, spicy, flinty and herbal, very intense but well-defined and elegant bouquet with interwoven fruit, juniper and stony aromas...

Very expansive nose with a lot of grapefruit, but also hints of exotic fruit and Mediterranean herbs. Very rich, with great textural complexity, but enough acidity that the imposing scale of the wine doesn't result in any...

From mica schist and vinified in acacia barrels, the 2017 Riesling Viesslinger Stern opens with a deep, clear and coolish, very intense but delicate and floral bouquet with crystalline flint- stone notes and white peach...

From a steep, southwest-facing vineyard on very shallow calcareous marl soils, the 2017 Ried Sulz Morillon is from Tement's warmest spot. Vinified in Burgundian pièces and 1,000-liter oak vats for one year and another six...

(95 - 96 points) Tasted from the assemblage vat a week before the bottling, the barrel-fermented 2018 Grüner Veltliner Ried Schön is deep, clear and generous on the highly elegant and herbal/stony as well as slightly oaky...

Smoky reduction, despite clouding a lot of the nose, cannot quite prevent some apricot and lemon from shining through. The palate then reveals earthy, yeasty hints of apricot and Mirabelle plum and a spiky lemon...

The 2017 Sauvignon Blanc Ried Hochgrassnitzberg GSTK HG shows a fine yeasty note as well as ripe and intense fruit with lots of flesh and fine spice. Juicy but also very yeasty and almost grainy in the mouth, with good...