Reviews

Weingut Günther Steinmetz Dhroner Grosser Hengelberg Riesling Monopollage

S'ok. Quince, lime, some hints of grapefruit and petrol. Sweeter than I would have preferred. Energy is just medium. Finishes slightly gummy. It's.... kinda there. No real personality. It's not gonna…

Dönnhoff Hermannshöhle Riesling Großes Gewächs

This thing needs a decent tick of time before it (hopefully) starts showing what it's all about. It has crystalline purity and the typical lemon/lime spritz thing going on, but it doesn't necessarily…

Künstler Hochheimer Hölle Riesling Großes Gewächs

Lime pith, green apple skin, and quince dominate, with a spritzy and linear posture that comes off primary and juvenile, this Kunstler is a bit of a straight shot cough drop at the moment. Flint and…

Peter Lauer Feils Riesling Faß 13 Großes Gewächs

Lemon lime, lychee, green and white melon, river rock, margarita, and prickly pear notes present a youthfully linear and direct showing. More intense than the Fass 11, with just enough push to…

Wittmann Westhofener Brunnenhauschen Riesling Großes Gewächs

This wine needs at least a decade to really develop its complexity and depth of flavor, as it currently displays hyper-primary lime, quartz, and white melon rind notes that are notably focused, pure,…

Peter Lauer Unterstenberg Riesling N°12

Lime juice, lychee, lemon peel, limeade, Sunkist lemon Jelly Belly, and wet limestone flavors are scattered about the palate by heavy spritz and pithy lemon seed notes. Spritely over seamlessness,…

Weingut Prinz Hallgartener Frühernberg Riesling trocken

A really spritzy showing this time around. The lemon and limestone flavors were a bit prickly as they were barbed with edgy acidity. Needs time. Currently it's like drinking steel wool with…

Weingut Clemens Busch Marienburg Falkenlay Riesling Großes Gewächs

Lime zest and juice, lemon juice and pith, honeydew, green pear skin, and limestone flavors present in a well-honed and medium+ delivery of flavor. It is chiseled and focused, and comes off a bit…

Trimbach Riesling Cuvée Frédéric Emile

Nutty and petrol-driven, with lamp oil and roasted walnut characteristics that make for an overly brassy execution of flavor, this 2000 is for those who value tertiary flavors over freshness. Bruised…

Weingut Prinz Hallgartener Jungfer Riesling Großes Gewächs

Lemon, quince, limestone, and some salt, this Prinz shows a bit of a milder side of GG intensity, but stays solid in its persistence. Balanced and even-keeled overall, with its gradual push of…

von Winning Deidesheimer Kieselberg Riesling Großes Gewächs

Much more punchy and energetic than its Grainhubel sibling, this Kieselberg impresses with complex tart green apple, quince, yellow and green pear, Meyer lemon rind, lemon verbena, sea foam,…

von Winning Deidesheimer Grainhübel Riesling Großes Gewächs

Quince, over-ripe lemon, pineapple rind, seagrass, cornhusk, chamomile, and a slight petrol note make for a rounded but aptly dry execution of flavor. Medium intensity and a bit simple overall in the…

Weingut Clemens Busch Pundericher Marienburg Fahrlay Riesling Trocken Reserve

A strikingly complex array of quince, green pear, yuzu, lemon and lime zest, white peach, grass, sea foam, green grape skin, wet herbs (Italian parsley and oregano), and subtle smoky sea salt notes…

Weingut Prinz Hallgartener Frühernberg Riesling trocken

A very fine example of trocken Riesling, with just the slightest tinge of lemon and lime sweetness on the front end of the attack to set off the succulent buttons on the palate; the core fruit then…

Peter Lauer Stirn Faß 15

Lime juice, candied lemon drop, Squirt, quince, lemon verbena, dried apricot, honey, ginger, faint petrol, and wet limestone. Ripe and juicy, with the sweetness kicking into gear mid-palate but…

Dönnhoff Kreuznacher Krötenpfuhl Riesling Kabinett

Green apple, lemon gummy bear, petrol, and some white and green melon rind. Sweet and fairly cloying, which stomps on the fruit a bit and makes for a saccharine-laced delivery. Finishes without much…

Dönnhoff Roxheimer Höllenpfad Riesling im Mühlenberg Großes Gewächs

Still not budging in terms of an enveloping flavor expansion. A very good bottle, but one to hold until after 2023+. Previous notes apply otherwise.

Joh. Jos. Prüm Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Auslese

Ripe and sweet Meyer lemon, yellow peach, candied lemon drops, spritz-infused quince, granite, and wet limestone. Certainly one of the sweeter Rieslings I've had over the last couple of weeks, with a…

Dönnhoff Niederhäuser Hermannshöhle Riesling Spätlese

Pure and well-weighted, with sweet lemon tart, ripe white and yellow pear, apricot, lemon verbena, pulverized granite and pumice, and faint concrete. The RS is on the front end of the attack right…

Trimbach Riesling Cuvée Frédéric Emile

Grilled pineapple and lemon, toasted pine nuts, wet limestone, olive and hazelnut oil, yellow pear skin, dried apricot, lamp oil, pumice, and traces of plantain. A wine that successfully straddles…

Dr. Loosen Ürziger Würzgarten Riesling Auslese

Honey, ripe apricot, yellow peach, and pear, lemontini, and the slightest hint of wet limestone. Wins all of its points for balance and purity, but every inch of this wine is wholly encompassed with…

Dönnhoff Roxheimer Höllenpfad Riesling im Mühlenberg Großes Gewächs

Beautiful tension and verve on the initial pull, with notes of white nectarine, white peach, and white stone fruit, quince, lemon juice, pumice, and hints of honeysuckle. Delivers with laser focus…

Trimbach Riesling Cuvée Frédéric Emile

Unripe pear, grilled lemon, ash, limestone, and hints of varnish. A formidable weight distribution along the palate, with a sturdy attack, but instantly drying and, at times, a little hollow.…

Josmeyer Riesling Le Dragon

Lemon, butterscotch, quince paste, unripe tangerine, pumice, and lamp oil. Pushing out a significant amount of petrol and some flint on its initial voyage, creating a heightened drying effect on the…

Weingut Josef Leitz Rüdesheimer Drachenstein Riesling Dragonstone

For $16, this is a great QPR and over-delivers in almost every way. Obviously not displaying the layered complexity of top shelf Rieslings, but beautifully balanced, with nice crowd-pleasing flavors…