Wine from Germany

jamessuckling.com, 94 points: Many consider this the least of H-L’s three single parcel wines from the great Uhlen site, and (as usual) it’s quite funky and closed at this point. In spite of the considerable concentration this is quite a sleek, cool...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 92 points: The NV von Buhl Reserve Brut is based on two-thirds Pinot Blanc and one-third Chardonnay. The sparkling wine displays a bright golden color and opens with an intense, fresh and elegant bouquet with lemon aromas intermixed...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 95 points: Bottled in April 2016, the 2014 Riesling Uhlen R 'VDP Grosse Lage' opens with a very clear, deep and ripe, stony-flavored Riesling bouquet. On the palate, this is a very finessed and elegant but also rich and intense...

jamessuckling.com, 92 points: Very lemony and flinty, this is quite a sleek and seriously mineral dry wine with a long, deep finish. Better from 2018. Screw cap closure. - Stuart Pigott

Vinous, 90 points: Subdued on the nose compared with its generic counterpart, this ultimately proves both more rarefied and more engaging. Juicy lime and grapefruit are suffused with basil and mint, with hints of blackcurrant emerging on a...

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, 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, 95 points: The dry 2015 Riesling Kinheimer Hubertuslay Auslese ** (White Capsule) is from very fine slate soils that give power to the wines (not in terms of alcohol, though). Cool and flinty on the nose, this is a very powerful...