2016 Wine from Germany

Vinous, 94 points: Orange and orange blossom, mint and elder flower waft fragrantly from the glass. This beauty comes to the palate with infectious juiciness of orange and lime, heady inner-mouth perfume, and a seductively silken feel...

jamessuckling.com, 93 points: A prototypical Kabinett with a sleek body, delicate peachy fruit and very fresh acidity. The mineral finish is long and filigree. Could be held for at least a decade, but it's so enticing now. Made from organic grapes and...

jamessuckling.com, 95 points: This taste like a top GG and has a personality entirely of its own with complex wild herb and licorice notes, the fruit aromas discrete and delicate. In the mouth this is remarkably sleek and elegant for such a powerful...

jamessuckling.com, 99 points: A gigantically concentrated dessert wine that is as poised and delicate as a prima ballerina à point. What brilliance and finesse, what purity and clarity. As long as you're not afraid of acidity, this could be a...

jamessuckling.com, 94 points: Who could resist this beauty? All the flowers and fresh herbs of spring are married to considerable elegance and there’s a ton of minerality at the crystalline finish. Drink or hold. Made from organic grapes and Fair'n...

jamessuckling.com, 97 points: Be prepared for this radical and fundamental wine that has more power and freshness than is decent or correct. The finish may be too much for you, but there’s profound truth in this amazing wine. Drink now or hold.

jamessuckling.com, 92 points: A finely-nuanced medium-bodied dry riesling with plenty of floral delicacy, but also a firm mineral backbone and a long filigree finish. Drink or hold. Made from organic grapes and Fair'n Green certified. From the...

Vinous, 93 points: Here is a gorgeous example of delicacy allied to flavor intensity and luscious fruit allied to savory mineral notes. Scents of fresh strawberry and lime anticipate the brightly juicy impression on a polished, buoyant...

jamessuckling.com, 93 points: There so much peachy fruit here you might miss the delicate floral and herbal notes. Ripe and succulent, yet clean and crisp this Spätlese has discreet sweetness and great balance at the elegant lingering finish. Drink or...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 97 points: The 2016 Riesling Zeltinger Himmelreich Auslese ** (Green Capsule) is terribly fine, pure and fresh but also perfectly ripe and rich on the nose without losing precision. Round and highly elegant on the palate, with...

Vinous, 94 points: This reflects a picking of grapes to a significant degree desiccated without botrytis, which shows in its striking clarity and primary juiciness, not to mention in measurable acidity high by vintage standards. Quince...

jamessuckling.com, 98 points: Mind-boggling purity and brilliance make the enormously concentrated mango, papaya and dried-apricot aromas light up like fireworks in the sky. What a breathtaking finish. Sure you can drink it now, but long experience...

Wine Enthusiast, 95 points: Made from Riesling grown in the heat-retaining basalt soils of the Pechstein vineyard, this dry, intensely mineral wine balances nerve and tension and against luscious white peach and yellow-cherry flavors. It's silky and...

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...