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...

Single vineyard Sauvignon planted in chalk limestone in the Obermosel, the southernmost part of the Mosel river in Germany, directly bordering Luxembourg. Clear, elegant, cool climate Sauvignon with classic varietal signatures of grapefruit, passionfruit and fresh cut grass. Also, typical of its...

Always a pleasure and always great value for Riesling-lovers, the grapes for Jean-Baptiste are mainly grown on the lower terraces of the Niersteiner Pettenthal (a grand cru site). Technically a feinherb style, or "balanced off-dry” at about 22-24g/l RS every year.  This is a wine we've used again...

Very dry at just 3.5g/l RS. Sourced from Gunderloch's three grand cru sites (Rothenberg, Pettenthal, Hipping), spontaneously fermented and vinified in steel. Red slate  (roten schiefer) coats the tongue and flourishes its herbal, spice-scented signature. 12hrs of skin contact also lends the wine a...

(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 ...

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....

A feinherb or "off-dry" style (around 20-25g/l RS depending on the vintage) named in honor of Johannes' father, world-renowned winemaker Fritz Hasselbach at the Gunderloch winery. This grows in a very small and special part of Rheinhessen called the Roter Hang meaning the “red hill”. Located...

Always a pleasure and always great value for Riesling-lovers, the grapes for Jean-Baptiste are mainly grown on the lower terraces of the Niersteiner Pettenthal (a grand cru site). Technically a feinherb style, or "balanced off-dry” at about 22-24g/l RS every year.  This is a wine we've used again...

Villages-level 100% Pinot Noir from the limestone soils (or "lime fragments" as the name Kalkbruch implies) of the Kleine Kalmit nature reserve, which arose around 27 million years ago from the limestone and shell deposits of a prehistoric sea. A dusting of red sandstone covers the chalky mother...

This crisp, zesty, flavorsome dry Riesling comes from rolling hillside vineyards in the southern Pfalz around Ilbesheim. Most of the soils are loam mixed with a top layer of loess -- a decomposed calcium-rich dust deposited from ancient glaciers. The wine was vinified in steel and offers 7+ grams...

48g/l RS, 10.4g acid, 8.5% alc. Stefan Müller holds vineyards in the villages of Niedermennig and Krettnach. One of his prized sites is a parcel of 50 year-old vines (“alte reben”) situated in the western, south-west-facing part of the Niedermenniger Sonnenberg. This parcel is situated on iron-rich...

80g/l RS, 10.2g acid, 7.5% alc. The Krettnacher Euchariusberg Auslese is harvested from vines planted in 1944 and 1964 in the privileged Gross Schock part of the vineyard, a deep, south-facing parcel of blue slate cooled by hillside breezes. Yields are punishingly small at just 20hl/ha. The wine’s...

60+g/l RS, 10-11g acid, 7.5% alc. Mostly a mix of old vines planted in 1967 in the south-facing Röderchen parcel of the vineyard, plus a parcel of centenarian vines planted in the 1920s. This is a masterpiece of precision and ripeness. Very small amounts are produced each year. Can be cellared for...

43.6g/l RS, 10g acid, 7.5% alc. Krettnacher Altenberg and Euchariusberg are two of the top-ranked sites on the Saar; steep, well-situated, and slatey. But Altenberg is much smaller, cooler, and in addition to its foundational blue-grey slate, contains the exceedingly rare "green slate" known as...

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...

11.5% alc, 0.6g/l RS. A crazy quilt blend of 60% Riesling, 25% Sauvignon Blanc, 12% Muller-Thurgau and 3% skin-fermented Muscat.The Riesling grapes come from the Krov Letterlay, a sunny, dry, grey slate site. The Sauvignon comes from the nearby Kinheimer Hubertuslay, also slate.Each grape variety...

Kobern is located between the towns of Winningen and Lehmen, and the soils here are a very fine, pure, dark blue slate.  This site is highly weathered with a very thin soil base, which causes the vines to root very deep into the soil in search of water during the summer, thus tapping into a...

Winningen is their home base on the Mosel; this is where the winery is.  All vineyards are steep sloped or terraced.  The particular slate profile of Winningen is a grey-brown that also contains iron and other mineralic particles that slowly oxidise red and yellow. All vineyards are facing south or...

Unfiltered, gravity-clarified, SO2 under 60ppm.  80% Burgundy clones, 100% destemmed, 40% new oak. A very ripe, alluring, almost chocolatey nose leads into a concentrated black cherry palate complicated by spicy, woodsy aromatics.