Wine from Germany

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 95 points: The 2015 Riesling Ürziger Würzgarten Spätlese (Golden Capsule) opens with a very clear and aromatic white stone fruit aroma intermixed with clear and smoky aromas. Sweet, lush and intense, this is a concentrated, already...

jamessuckling.com, 97 points: What makes this stand out is the gigantic mineral freshness that's perfectly married to its richness. This gives the finish a whole extra dimension lacking in the majority of 2015 Auslese. The nose still needs some time...

View From The Cellar, 98 points: After the brilliance of the 2011 Brücke Spätlese and Auslese, I was beginning to wonder how the sweet wines from the Hermannshöhle were going to stack up this year. Never mind! The 2011 Hermannshöhle Auslese is a legend...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 99 points: The 2015 Riesling Kinheimer Hubertuslay Auslese *** (Golden Capsule) is clear, deep and complex on the nose and opens with ripe but fresh fruit aromas intermixed with herbal notes. Highly elegant, precise and finessed but...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 95 points: The 2011 Trarbacher Schlossberg Pinot Noir *** is another grand cru from the Mosel, another highlight of Germany's Pinot Noir culture offering smoky cherry and nougat aromas but the nose remains pure and elegant. The...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 96 points: 96+ Coming from partly ungrafted vines down to 50 years, the 2015 Stromberg Riesling GG comes from the steepest and stoniest porphyry vineyards of the domaine. It opens deep, clear and flinty on the nose, with a very pure...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 95 points: From 100+-year-old vines on blue slate, the 2015 Pündericher Marienburg Riesling GG Fahrlay Terrassen offers a clear and slatey bouquet with lemon flavors. This is a ripe, rich, round, beautifully piquant, pure and salty...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 94 points: The 2013 Felseneck Spätlese Gold Capsule starts with a fascinating ripe and aromatic bouquet of lime and lemon perfume spiced with crushed slate and some herbal aromas. This rich and enormously juicy and piquant Spätlese...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 98 points: The 2015 Riesling Saarburger Rausch Beerenauslese is very concentrated and intense on the nose, with dried dark stone fruit aromas along with spicy and some oaky flavors. Round, super lush and seamless in its highly...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 97 points: Richter's amber/orange colored 2011 Graacher Dompropst Riesling Trockenbeerenauslese, picked at 260° Oechsle and bottled with 5.5% alcohol plus 340 grams of unfermented sugar and 12.5 grams of total acidity, needs some...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 96 points: The 2015 Rheingau Riesling Beerenauslese Oestrich Lenchen VDP Grosse Lage has a clear, fresh and concentrated bouquet of lemon chutney with lemon zests and crushed stone flavors. Sweet, lush and piquant, this is a highly...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 92 points: Surprisingly the nose of the 2001 Riesling Auslese Erdener Pralat had characteristics generally found in Sauvignon Blancs namely freshly-mowed wet lawn and gooseberries. This expansive offering offers rich layers of...

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...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 97 points: The 2015 Riesling Ockfener Bockstein Beerenauslese is clear, rich and toasty on the nose, very clear, refined and elegant, with very fine Riesling flavors. On the palate, this is a highly elegant and almost light-weight...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 97 points: Bottled in late 2016 with 5.5% alcohol plus 360 grams of unfermented sugar, the dark orange/amber colored 2011 Brauneberger Juffer-Sonnenuhr Riesling Trockenbeerenauslese is clear and aromatic on the spicy nose where ripe...