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Hofgut Falkenstein Altenberg Riesling Spatlese Trocken 2020
$60.00From old vines, between 50 and 60 years old, a stunning array of cool aromatics. The faintest of pink colour, with beeswax, grapefruit, juniper, mint, tarragon, red delicious apple, lime zest and frangipani. Intense but not obtuse. Coiled, tense, vivid and cool flavours, including gooseberry, kiwifruit, savoury spice, tonic-like and pickled vine leaf. So bracing […]
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Muller-Catoir MC Riesling 2020
$45.00Instantly appealing, sliced-pear and white-peach aromas with floral and mandarin notes. This medium-bodied dry riesling is so charming and lively, but also has very good depth and balance at the finish. 92 points, Stuart Pigott, James Suckling Dry. Organic. Screwcap. Few German estates produce an entry Riesling of this depth and structure. It is made entirely […]
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Clemens Busch Marienburg Fahrlay Grosses Gewächs 2020
$160.0097 Points – “Smelling this is like looking into a deep abyss, and someone unfamiliar with intensely mineral dry riesling might feel a bit of vertigo. However, these grapefruit, white-tea and wild-herb aromas really excite us. On the sleek palate this is super-focused with a terrific tannin structure that beautifully matches the crystalline quality on […]
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Hofgut Falkenstein Niedermenniger Riesling Kabinett ‘Feinherb’ 2020
$60.00Intense and full of character with notes of white flowers, stone fruits, citrus, spice, cherry and blackcurrant. Intense and full of presence, but with a lightness of touch. The spice is more elevated on the palate (clove) and although off-dry, feels drier for all that. Scintillating and mineral as you so often find with Falkenstein, […]
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Eva Fricke Rheingau Riesling Trocken 2020
$58.00Straight out of the blocks, what a way to start a wine tasting. Expressive, explosive and intense. Lemon, thyme, vine leaf, white peach and umami. Very narrow in profile, initially, but with a bit of swirling, warmth and time, really opens up and fleshes out. There is a mineral and saline quality, lip-smacking and with […]
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Clemens Busch Marienburg Falkenlay Grosses Gewächs 2020
$160.0098 Points – “The 2020 Marienburg GG Falkenlay opens with a clear, pure and crunchy slate aroma intermingled with generous, ripe and concentrated, very elegant Riesling fruit with herbal aromas. Full-bodied and rich yet refined and saline on the palate, this is a very delicate, pure yet also lush and superbly balanced Falkenlay with lingering […]
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Rippon Mature Vine Riesling 2020
$55.00A Riesling of great drama, concentration and tension, of a style rarely found outside Germany. Exotic yellow fruits, cherry, green apple, savoury spice, apricot, yellow peach and honeysuckle. Medium bodied, deep and pure, a thrilling tense palate, Saar like. Rippling energy, gripped with piquant acidity, squeezing phenolics and dusted by mineral salts. Tamed by residual […]
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Weinbach Schlossberg Grand Cru Riesling 2020
$185.00Delightfully firm with so much personality and the sensation that you are licking stones in the vineyard! So firm, so pungent, yet so fruity. Gorgeous wine, essence of Riesling and already approachable. Steely finish suggests a long life ahead. Bone dry and very long. 17.5 points, Jancis Robinson MW, JancisRobinson.com The Schlossberg hill has long been […]
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Weiser-Kunstler Steffensberg “im Lowenbaum” Riesling 2020
$65.00Dry Mosel riesling at it’s incomparable best. Expressive sensual and exotic notes of mustard seed, yellow peach, kiwifruit, cherry, smoke, fresh compost and grapefruit. Packed with flavour, yet light as a feather. Where else could decadence be married to such a lightness of touch. Silky and ripe with blackcurrant, lavender soap, fennel, green peppercorns, pawpaw […]
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Clemens Busch Marienburg Grosses Gewächs 2020
$135.0095 Points – “The 2020 Marienburg GG is pure and fresh on the coolish and stony nose that represents its terroir perfectly well even if still showing a sur lie layer. Very elegant and refined on the palate, this is a lush, well-balanced and now creamy-textured Marienburg with gentle acidity and a long, saline and […]
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Clemens Busch Riesling Vom Grauen Schiefer 2020
$80.0091 Points – “Lovely, floral delicacy with plenty of fine garden-herb notes on the nose. Sleek and linear, this is intensely mineral at the long, clean finish. The name means “from gray slate”. Just 11.5% alcohol.” Stephan Reinhardt, The Wine Advocate 91 Points/Outstanding – “The 2020er Riesling vom grauen Schiefer, as it is referred to […]
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