We can't get enough Riesling, especially during the summer months (see why in My great white hope), so here is a collection of notes on the most recent ones we have tried, from Germany, Australia, New Zealand and a lone but very good value example from Alsace.
The wines below are grouped by region/country and within each country they are ordered by declining score.
GERMANY
Fully evolved and very pungently rich with a dry finish. Masses...
Only 220 half bottles produced from an incredibly steep slope...
Intense aromatic purity of grapefruit and just a slight...
Smells riper and more apricot-laden than the Pius but still some...
A similar smoky reductive aroma as on the Niersteiner H Kabinett...
Featherlight but chock full of floral aromas. Definitely...
High-quality, long cork. Complex and perhaps slightly reductive...
More delicate and purely citrus-driven than the Piesporter...
Beautifully pure Riesling aroma that combines surprisingly ripe...
Gosh, one doesn't expect a Mosel Beerenauslese at 12%! Yet it's...
More herbal, more sweet, a little more syrupy than the Mosel...
Mid gold. Really dense and winning with real muscle. Exciting...
Firm and smoky on the nose. Really quite angular and severe but...
Fresh and a little spindly with some blackcurrant leaf notes...
AUSTRALIA
The late release of this single vineyard wine from Robert Hill...
Single vineyard. After a drier than average winter, budburst...
Jim Barry purchased the Lodge Hill vineyard in 1977, as he was...
NEW ZEALAND
Own roots – cane cuttings from Felton Road. Single cane, one...
ALSACE
The image above left is the Sybille Kuntz logo, taken from their website.
