Heiligenstein, the most famous vineyard in the Kamptal, is legendary for Riesling. The terraced south and southwest facing slope has a unique geological history and it’s unusual that soil this old is at the surface of the earth. The outcropping bedrock consists of a reddish-brown sandstone with a...

The Riesling Sekt Brut Nature “Jour Fixe” is made from equal parts of fruit harvested in the upper part of the Enkircher Ellergrub, the west-facing part of the Trabener Zollturm and bought-in grapes from old vines in the Oberemmeler Altenberg. The wine is methode champenoise, aged nine months in...

Always a pleasure and always great value for Riesling-lovers, the grapes for Jean-Baptiste are grown on the lower terraces of Gunderloch's three top vineyard sites: Nierstein Hipping, Nierstein Pettenthal and Nackenheim Rothenberg (all grand cru sites). Technically a feinherb style, or "balanced...

Riesling from the dry-farmed and organically farmed Nemarniki Vineyard in Chehalem Mountains AVA. Nemarniki is a 6-acre site, planted at 800ft elevation on loess soils. The fruit was hand-harvested during the third week of October, direct pressed, and fermented in 500L puncheons and stainless steel...

12% alc, 6.3g/l acid, 0.7g/l residual sugar, fermented in two Mosel füders (1,000L each) until August then put straight into bottle after malolactic fermentation ended. Left unfiltered and no SO2 added. One füder was from Enkircher Steffensberg and one from Kröv Letterlay vineyards. This wine is...

Outrageously delicious, fruity (feinherb) Riesling from this woman-owned micro-estate working on the natural end of the spectrum, sourced from absurdly steep terraces in the far northern Mosel, mostly from Winningen and Kobern. Spontaneous fermentation, no chaptalization, no fining, no additions or...