THE BEST VINTAGE EVER OF THIS???? Firmly dry, rich, layered, intense, and practically vibrating with minerality. A twenty-five year wine.

100% Pinot Blanc vinified bone dry but very ripe. A late-harvest selection of older vines (40-50 years old) planted in limestone soils mostly from the Steinacker and some from Saumagen. Mineral-driven and creamy with a touch of acidity.

Elbling is enjoying a small renaissance among German importers these days... but we’ve had this grape in our back pocket for years. A great old Germanic wine grape with a long history traceable to imperial Roman times, it was Germany's most cultivated variety until the early 20th century. Today its...

(2.5g RS/7.5g acid/12.5% alc) A site made famous by many winemakers in the region, the Niersteiner Pettenthal is a finer soil than Rothenberg, more pebbly with broken rocks and less geological compression. The wines from here tend to be more tensile, more filigreed, lighter on their feet, yet ...

90g/l RS, 9g acid, 7% alc. There was botrytis in this vintage, but at Gunderloch it was the dry, clean kind that winemakers love. Tasted upon release, it showed extremely pale and pretty with great juiciness and lift--atypical for a Rhine Auslese. Sweet lemon tea notes play around the edges. With...

Powerful and lavish Spatlese, completely swet and sensuously textured--YET somehow balanced on a dime with a finish that floats. How do they do that?!?! Deep yellow fruis are accented by potpourri, honey and river rocks. These wines have a tremendous history of development with age. 

60% Pinot Noir, 20% Pinot Meunier, 20% Portugieser from estate-owned organic vineyards plus some contracted fruit. Sites include the "cooler" side of the Roter Hang and some chalky loam soils on top of the Rhine plateau. Vinified in steel, macerated briefly on the skins, and closed with a screwcap...

6.5g, 7g acid, 12% alc. Juicy, sleek, fabulously aromatic and lively DRY Riesling, grown along the Rhinefront in soils of red slate and clay, harvested in early September to capture perfect acidity with total ripeness. Yellow fruits and vivid, convincing minerality spring easily from this wine....

Eighty-five percent Portugieser and fifteen percent Pinot Meunier. Closed with a screwcap. A lovely pale salmon color w/ luminous clarity. Dry on the palate with subtle flavors of strawberries and apricots, and keenly balanced at twenve and a half percent alcohol. It’s a perfect sipper, picnic...

100% Palomino Fino pressed and fermented in stainless steel. Aged in barrel and raised to 20% ABV. Aged for 20 years solera style.

VORS. Initially aged under flor to but then loses it when exposed to oxygen. The wine is fortified to about 20%. Aged for about 30 years.

100% Palomino Fino. Grapes are pressed and fermented in stainless steel and raised to 20% ABV. Undergoes oxidative aging in the traditional solera style for 6 years.

100% Fine Palomino. Aged under flor and later oxidized. Solera aged American oak casks for eight years.