Riesling
2022 Dr. Loosen - Erdener Treppchen Kabinett (750ml)
The 2022 Riesling Erdener Treppchen Kabinett opens with a touch of tansy, lemon zest and chervil, spreading citric, herbal spice. The finish is gorgeously lemony. Wonderfully balanced, not too sweet, vivid and bright, a joy. (Medium)
2023 Dr. Loosen - Urziger Wurzgarten Kabinett (750m
The 2023 Ürziger Würzgarten Kabinett is pure and refined but generous on the finely aromatic nose that represents the delicate and fragrant floral and herbal characteristics of this volcanic Rotliegend terroir. Savory as well as immediately saline on the ...
2023 Dr. Loosen - Erdener Treppchen Spatlese (750ml)
Loosen's 2023 Erdener Treppchen Spätlese is precise and intensely aromatic on the elegant and complex nose that reveals ripe, tropical fruit aromas such as mangoes intertwined with weathered slate and almond cake aromas. Round and refined on the palate, t...
2023 Dr. Loosen - Urziger Wurzgarten Spatlese (750ml)
The 2023 Riesling Ürziger Würzgarten Spätlese isn't ready to reveal its charms on the nose, but the palate is a beautifully savory, stony, salty monument to fruit and stone, with herbal savor of deadnettle, tansy and yarrow and the juiciest tangerine. ...
2023 Dr. Loosen - Bernkasterler Lay Kabinett (750m
What a juicy and animating light Mosel Kabinett with lime zest and mint character, plus good yellow and green apple fruit. Long, super-clean finish. And the total impression is of a wine that’s barely off-dry. Drink or hold. Screw cap.
2021 Dr. Wagner - Ockfener Bockstein Kabinett
Alc: 8% - residual sugar: 42,0 g/ltr – acidity: 7,9 g/ltr.
The single vineyard site “Ockfener Bockstein” is a
guarantee for filigree and “powerful” wines. this
vineyard site is also a classified VDP “Große Lage”,
out of which you can also vinify Große Gewächse. On
the palate you will find floral aromas and acacia honey
and nuances of vineyard peach. The subtle
sweetness is vibrant and fresh. In combination with
the racy acidity the Ockfener Bockstein Riesling
Kabinett make really fun. The palate is encased of
fine sweetness, so that you have a fine and long finish
2024 Emrich-Schonleber - Halenberg Grosses Gewachs (750ml)
The Halenberg is often considered, along with the Auf der Ley (offered only through the German auctions) the most structured and densest and most monumental of the Grand Crus from Schönleber. It is certainly a stony and dense wine; there is always more weight, more push and depth to the Halenberg. If the Frühlingsplätzchen is a dancer, the Halenberg is a monolith – its power is its presence, and vice-versa. In youth there is both more fruit and more mineral, compared to Frühlingsplätzchen. This is one of the most statuesque and substantial GGs out there, perhaps akin to Keller’s Morstein in density and structure.
Compared to the Frühlingsplätzchen, the Halenberg is rounder and riper – at least on first opening. There is more depth, more raw and pushing citrus fruit; the register feels more yellow than green. On the palate too, while the minimalist aesthetic of Schönleber is there, the wine feels more textural, both more fruity and more mineral. On day two the wine goes full 360 and shuts down completely: the nose is like smelling the cold purity of space (albeit with maybe a tinge of Meyer lemon?) It is haunting and the reputation of the wine begins to make sense only after 24+ hours open, holy hell. This is a brilliant wine, severe, coating, dense with concentration. Wow. This is an immense wine that needs hours/days to unfurl if you are drinking sooner and will certainly age for a decade or two or longer.
-Importer notes (Vom Boden)
2024 Emrich-Schonleber - Fruhlingsplatzschen Grosses Gewachs (750ml)
This is the Grand Cru sites with what I think is the greatest name out there – pronounced “Froooh-lings-PLATS-shen.” Go ahead and say it, it’ll make you feel good. It translates, roughly, to “little place of spring.” While the Halenberg is the denser, more monumental wine, with likely more stuffing and structure to age longer, I’ll admit the Frühlingsplätzchen is my favorite. There, I said it. I just love the soaring aromatics, the sharpness of the wine, the linear lightness and delicacy. They are rarely about fruit as much as they are about a saline quality, mineral and flower. This is a superb, superb GG that dances on the palate like a good old Spätlese Trocken… even Kabinett Trocken?
Importer notes (Vom Boden)
2024 Emrich-Schonleber - Niederberg Kabinett (750ml)
The 2024 Riesling Monzinger Niederberg Kabinett is full of stone and lemon aromas on the nose. Citrus takes the lead on the palate, with its exquisite zestiness and tender sweetness that rounds it out. This remains essentially refreshing, exciting and ...
2022 Ettore Germano - Langhe Riesling Herzu (750ml)
This incredibly refined white has delicate aromas suggesting fragrant spring flowers, beeswax, yellow stone fruit and botanical herbs. Savory and loaded with finesse, the bright, focused palate delivers ripe apricot, yellow peach and fennel seed alongside...
