Germany
German Wine
Germany is Riesling's home, and the country's best wines come from steep river valleys too cool for almost anything else — the Mosel, the Rheingau, the Nahe, the Pfalz and Rheinhessen.
Reading the label
German labels state ripeness at harvest, not sweetness in the bottle, and this is where most buyers go wrong. Kabinett is the lightest picking, then Spätlese, then Auslese, then the rare Beerenauslese, Trockenbeerenauslese and Eiswein. Any of them can be dry: the word that decides it is Trocken. So Spätlese Trocken is a dry wine from a ripe picking, while Spätlese alone is off-dry. Separately, GG (Grosses Gewächs) marks a dry wine from a top single vineyard.
What to expect
Riesling is low in alcohol — 8–12% is normal — high in acid, and among the longest-lived white wines made anywhere. Off-dry German Riesling is also one of the very few wines that genuinely handles chilli and Sichuan heat, where the residual sugar does the work that a dry white cannot. Germany also makes serious Pinot Noir, labelled Spätburgunder.
Serving
Dry Riesling 10–12°C, off-dry and sweet 8–10°C, Spätburgunder 14–16°C.
Filters
Joh. Jos. Prum "Graacher Himmelreich" Riesling Spatlese 2023 (1x75cl)
Dr. Loosen Red Slate Riesling Dry, Mosel 2024 (1x75cl)
Dr. Loosen Red Slate Riesling Dry, Mosel 2023 (1x75cl)
Schloss Vollrads Riesling Qualitatswein Trocken 2023 (1x75cl)
Bretz Pinot Noir Rose "Extra Trocken" NV Rheinhessen (1x75cl)
Dr. Burklin-Wolf Riesling Hommage a Luise (off-dry) 2022 (1x75cl)
Markus Molitor Urziger Wurzgarten Riesling Kabinett Off Dry 2020 (1x75cl)
Egon Muller "Wiltinger Braune Kupp" Riesling Auslese 2018 (1x75cl)
Egon Muller "Wiltinger Braune Kupp" Riesling Auslese 2021 (1x75cl)
Joh. Jos. Prum "Wehlener Sonnenuhr" Riesling Auslese 2022 (1x75cl)
Joh. Jos. Prum "Zeltinger Sonnenuhr" Riesling Auslese 2021 (1x75cl)
Weingut Donnhoff "Felsenberg Felsenturmchen" Riesling Dry G.G. 2022 (1x75cl)
Weingut Donnhoff "Niederhauser Klamm" Riesling Kabinett 2021 (1x75cl)
Weingut Donnhoff "Roxheimer Hollenpfad" Riesling Dry V.D.P. Erste Lage 2022 (1x75cl)
Georg Muller "Hassel" Riesling Kabinett V.D.P. Grosse Lage 2019 (1x75cl)
Georg Muller "Hattenheim" Riesling Feinherb V.D.P. Ortswein 2022 (1x75cl)
Georg Muller "Schutzenhaus" Riesling Trocken V.D.P. Erste Lage 2020 (1x75cl)
Georg Muller "Schutzenhaus" Riesling V.D.P. Erste Lage 2020 (1x75cl)
S.A. Prum Wehlener Sonnenuhr Alte Reben Riesling GG 2013 (1x75cl)
S.A. Prum Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Auslese Vat 20 2003 (1x37.5cl)
S.A. Prum Graach Dompropst Riesling Auslese Vat 8 2003 (1x75cl)
S.A. Prum Graach Himmerlreich Riesling Auslese Vat24 1998 (1x50cl)
S.A. Prum Wehlener Sonnenuhr Alte Reben Riesling Spatlese 2004 (1x75cl)
Markus Molitor Riesling Qualitatswein Haus Klosterberg Dry 2020 (1x75cl)
Markus Molitor Riesling Haus Klosterberg Cuvee Sekt Brut NV (1x75cl)
Markus Molitor Bernkasteler Doctor Riesling Auslese***Dry (Auction Wine) 2016 (1x75cl)
Markus Molitor Bernkasteler Graben Riesling Auslese* Edition No.12 Sweet 2005 (1x75cl)
Markus Molitor Zeltinger Sonnenuhr Riesling Kabinett Dry Fuder Number 6 2018 (1x75cl)
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