Wine from Germany

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 100 points: The 2018 Riesling Zeltinger Sonnenuhr Beerenauslese * is precise, clear and highly refined on the subtle, aromatic and flinty nose that represents perfect, early botrytis. Sweet and piquant on the crystalline and salty...

jamessuckling.com, 98 points: The mystery of ancient herbs takes this concentrated and racy dry riesling up to another level. Old-vine concentration, but also the almost supernatural brightness and austerity of high-altitude, windy sites. Seemingly...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 93 points: The 2015 Deidesheimer Mäusehöhle Riesling (AP 2216) opens with a pure and refreshing, rather coolish aroma (compared to the Leinshöhle) of ripe yellow fruits intertwined with stony aromas. Round, fresh and elegant on the...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 93 points: More aristocratic and unapproachable in its cool and dusty wet stone aroma (from 100% phylitte soils), the 2014 Kiedricher Turmberg Riesling Trocken is mind-blowing in its ascetic power and terroir expression. The fruit...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 93 points: Clear, precise and super-ripe stone fruit aromas along with some stony flavors open the 2013 Pechstein Riesling Auslese. With 10 grams of total acidity, the attack on the palate is racy and mineral and, due to its firm...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 95 points: Picked at 120° Oechsle and "with 90% fine and juicy botrytis," according to Constantin Richter, the 2015 Brauneberger Juffer-Sonnenuhr Riesling Auslese ** (Fass #101) displays a very fine, precise and concentrated...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 95 points: The art of selection comes to another highlight in the sweet 2013 Ockfener Bockstein Auslese ** whose concentrated lemon aromas are pure and precise and interwoven with earthy/rocky flavors with a laser-like precision and...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 96 points: Even purer and perhaps more sophisticated than the Bockstein is the sweet 2013 Erdener Treppchen Riesling Auslese ** with its cool, slate purity and springlike citrus and blossom aromas, which are delivered as lime...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 98 points: Molitor's 2014 Riesling Zeltinger Sonnenuhr Auslese *** (Golden Capsule) has a yellow-golden color and displays a very clear and precise, rather warm and tropical bouquet of fully ripe, perfectly selected Riesling...

Decanter, 95 points: The Jesuitengarten vineyard, previously owned by a Jesuit monastery, was acquired by the Jordan family in 1793. It is one of the top sites in Pfalz, boasting soil which is absolutely crammed with minerals. The grapes are...

jamessuckling.com, 99 points: The enveloping, peachy aroma with just a whisker of fresh pineapple leads into a mind-boggling micro-cosmos of flavor that's simultaneously rich, yet also supernaturally delicate. Sublime balance through the enormously...

jamessuckling.com, 93 points: Ripe, concentrated and elegant, this has impressive chalky minerality on the long finish. Drink or hold (a decade should be no problem). Screw cap closure.

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 95 points: The 2016 Piesporter Treppchen Riesling "von den Terrassen" was picked at 96° Oechsle ("strangely, like every year," says Stefan Steinmetz) and fermented in stainless steel down to 11.5% alcohol and 20 grams of residual...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 98 points: 98+ The 2015 Riesling Kinheimer Rosenberg Auslese *** (Golden Capsule) displays clear, intense and fresh aromas of ripe pineapples, lemon fruits and crushed stones, indicating gorgeous purity. Crystalline and highly...

View From The Cellar, 96 points: The Dönnhoff family picked two small lots of Eiswein this year, one on the 9th of December and the other on the 13th, and Helmut Dönnhoff decided that they would be better blended together to make one bottling, rather...