Dry · Full-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Savoury · Contemplative
Smokier and more chiseled than Morstein, with dried herbs and iodine notes against a salt-edged mineral spine.
Cuvées
CHF Riesling
4.8
Dry · Full-bodied · High acidity · Contemplative
Reserve dry Riesling from a Frauenberg sub-parcel, smoky and tertiary with a deep saline finish, released only in long-cellar years.
Dry · Full-bodied · Racy acidity · Contemplative
Dry Grosses Gewaechs from the Nieder-Floersheimer Frauenberg deep-limestone parcel, smoky and powerful with a saline-iodine register.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · Racy acidity · Contemplative · Elegant
Daniel Wagner's Heerkretz is the porphyry-and-slate flagship at the Rheinhessen-Nahe border; taut, smoky and chiseled with deep mineral grip.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · Racy acidity · Elegant · Contemplative
Saulheimer Hoelle is one of Wonnegau's most calcareous parcels; Thoerle's bottling is taut and chalk-driven with smoky lift.
Dry · Full-bodied · Racy acidity · Contemplative
Dry Grosses Gewaechs from the Westhofener Morstein limestone hill at Keller, aged in 1,200-litre Stueckfass with a 7-to-25-year drinking window from vintage.
Dry · Full-bodied · Low tannin · Racy acidity · Elegant · Contemplative
A deep limestone-driven Riesling from the Westhofen Morstein, dense, mineral and built for the cellar.
Dry · Full-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Savoury · Contemplative
Oelberg is one of Schaetzel's three Niersteiner Grosse Lage sites; a dry Riesling GG with iron mineral grip and a savoury Roter Hang finish.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · Racy acidity · Elegant · Contemplative
A Niersteiner Pettenthal Riesling at Manz: taut, iron-grip salinity from red slate on the Roter Hang, outside the VDP system but in the same expressive register.
Dry · Full-bodied · Racy acidity · Contemplative
Dry GG from a Pettenthal Roter Hang parcel on red slate above the Rhine, smoky and saline with a tropical-fruit core distinct from the family's Wonnegau limestone GGs.
Dry · Full-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Elegant · Contemplative
Pettenthal Roter Hang Riesling with chiseled mid-palate, iron-grip salinity and a long finish; a cooler-side foil to the Hipping in the same line-up.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · Racy acidity · Contemplative · Savoury
A Demeter-certified Pettenthal that doubles down on Roter Hang red-slate character: taut, iron-grip salinity and a long spicy finish.
Dry · Full-bodied · Low tannin · Racy acidity · Contemplative · Elegant
A Demeter-certified Pettenthal that delivers the southern Roter Hang flagship: dense, iron-grip salinity and deep mineral spine.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Elegant · Contemplative
A Blanc de Noirs Grande Reserve aged over a decade on lees; deeply autolytic, savoury and very long, a German Sekt benchmark.
Dessert · Full-bodied · Racy acidity · Contemplative
Botrytised Rothenberg Riesling Auslese with apricot, honey and saffron over Roter Hang red-slate mineral; long-living sweet-Riesling reference.
Dry · Full-bodied · Racy acidity · Contemplative
Dry Riesling from ungrafted pre-phylloxera vines on Rothenberg red-slate, deep yellow fruit, smoky tertiary register and a long saline tail.
Dry · Full-bodied · Low tannin · Racy acidity · Contemplative · Elegant
Ungrafted old-vine Riesling from the red-slate Rothenberg in Nackenheim, dense and salty with an iron-tinged finish and decades of cellar potential.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · Racy acidity · Elegant · Contemplative
Erik and Carolin Riffel's Binger Scharlachberg Riesling: taut mid-palate, porphyry-and-quartzite grip and smoky long finish, biodynamic-farmed.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Elegant · Contemplative
Schloss Westerhaus Pinot Noir GG comes from the estate monopole above Ingelheim; an elegant red-cherry expression with spicy oak frame.