FREE SHIPPING OVER $30— Shopping Made Simple.
Showing 1–20 of 45 results
Ask any Sommelier what type of white wine is the most age-worthy of all, and you will undoubtedly hear the same response: German Riesling. This variety has an ethereal ability to effortlessly express an infinite amount of flavors within a delicate frame and the cool, steep hillside slopes of Germany provide the perfect vantage for…
2012 Barmès-Buecher Riesling Grand Cru “Hengst” — “un travail de fou” A sommelier friend in Illhaeusern had told us about the young winegrower. It was 1992. We rang the bell outside the courtyard and pulled in next to the little caveau across from the house. Genevieve Barmès greeted us with a gracious smile and a “Bonjour” more…
Sourced from a jaw-dropping lineup of Grosse Lage (Grand Cru) sites in the golden heart of the Middle Mosel, now over a decade old, Wegeler’s 2013 Riesling is well on its way to apotheosis. It boasts incredible complexity: A mesmerizing nose leads to a palate of exotic flavors and knife-edge balance. Wegeler has been one…
Trimbach has been helping to define the picturesque region since 1626, and today, 13 generations later, the wines of Alsace are in a very real sense synonymous with the family name. From the incredibly long-lived Clos Sainte Hune—widely considered to be one of the true jewels of French wine—to ready-to-drink bottlings of Riesling, Pinot Blanc,…
Hirtzberger is without a doubt, a pillar of Austria’s famed Wachau region and one of the country’s highly respected producers of dry white wine. Notorious for his meticulously small yields, the 2015 Franz Hirtzberger Riesling Federspiel Steinerterrassen is crafted from only the most perfect clusters, taken during the first two passes of Hirtzberger’s unbelievably…
From the Steepest Slopes, the Best Riesling [[image1_center]] Dr. Ulrich Stein is more than a winemaker — he is a passionate advocate for the traditional, steep, slate vineyards of the Mosel. Back in 2010, the man widely known as “Ulli” wrote a call to arms against the modern threats to the 2,000-year tradition of German…
Calling all lovers of crisp, bone-dry, complex, whites to drink now or cellar — this is a special find. Nova Cadamatre, MW — America’s first female winemaker to earn the coveted Master of Wine title — has made some of America’s most significant wines including the Robert Mondavi To Kalon 50th Anniversary Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon….
Austria’s Best at America’s Best Price The Wachau, northwest of Vienna, is Austria’s most prized wine region. It consists of sloping and terraced vineyards that quickly ascend out of the banks of the Danube. This is where the Pichler clan has been cultivating vines since the early 1730s, and where Rudi Pichler grew up in…
Trimbach, which started making wine in 1626, is inarguably one of the world’s standard bearers, and their very special 2016 Riesling 390eme Anniversaire Ribeauville doesn’t just celebrate that legacy—it proves it. This gorgeous Riesling—sourced from Trimbach’s finest parcels, including coveted Grand Cru sites—is as rare and special as they come. It’s generous and complete, with…
The Wachau’s Highest Elevation Riesling Ask anyone about the top producers in the Wachau, and you’ll hear the two Ps: Pichler, of course, and Prager. The man at the helm at Prager, Toni Bodenstein, married into the Prager family and has since become a steward of the family’s legacy. He employs a meticulous blend of…
Highly Rated, Yet Flying Low Under-the-Radar Very little Alkoomi makes it to the States, and the 2017 Alkoomi Black Label Riesling Frankland River is something special—if you buy one Riesling this year, make it this one. The Alkoomi represents one of the New World’s finest dry Riesling bottlings and comes from the family that helped…
On the heels of our first-ever allocation from the oldest cooperatively owned winery in France, we made it very clear to the importer: When Cave de Ribeauvillé’s Riesling Osterberg Grand Cru makes it to the US, we better get the first call. We were smiling when we said it, but we were also dead serious. That’s because…
It’s one thing to call a wine an incredible deal—and another to watch as vineyard workers winch a sled of golden grapes up a perilously steep slope, muscles and ropes straining against gravity and rock. The effort it takes to carve this wine out of the Mosel River valley walls is momentous, so to nab…
Drinking Riesling with the Master The size of Mr. Bergweiler’s hands didn’t seem quite real. We had spent the morning with him touring the estate vineyards from which this bear of a man crafts some of the most energetic, mineral white wines on earth, and had just gotten settled into a table at his winery…
“Make no mistake,” Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate advised regarding today’s producer. “Here is one of the Mosel’s top emerging talents.” High praise, considering that when it comes to brisk, bone-dry white wines, Germany’s spectacular Mosel region has few equals for complexity and verve. The Mosel boasts, hands down, the world’s most prized Riesling terroir for…
The Fruits of Mosel’s Spice Garden We were getting a little dizzy. Gazing up at Ürziger Würzgarten, the “insanely steep,” rust-red vineyard that looms over this bend in the Mosel river, can do that to you. We trekked to Ürzig specifically to check the Ürziger Würzgarten, a German winegrowing location as unmistakable as Hermitage Hill…
Winemaker Matt Nagy has helped craft some of the most sought-after wines in the world. Alongside 100-point legend Thomas Rivers Brown and Winemaker of the Year Steve Matthiasson, he’s worked with wines that have, over the years, been praised as “profound” and “simply amazing” by Wine Spectator, and are benchmarks among collectors and top sommeliers….
Alsace is ground zero for epic dry Riesling. Long before dry was cool in Germany, the Alsatians had perfected the art of bright, steely Riesling with power—and it’s hard to find a more renowned estate in Alsace than Domaine Weinbach. Their estate Riesling is one of the greatest values in great wine: a racy, mineral,…
Dönnhoff is one of the most iconic producers in all of Germany. The family, which has been in the Nahe region for over two centuries, makes some of the best wines in the country from their nearly 62 acres of Erste Lage, or Grand Cru, vineyards. This one, the 2018 Dönnhoff Estate Riesling Trocken, is a…
The vineyards behind the frozen-in-time German village of Bernkastel rise so steeply, it’s hard to avoid getting vertigo while looking up at them. At first glance, it’s immediately apparent that their wines would be impressive. What’s less obvious is how anyone planted vines on the treacherously steep, slate slopes to begin with—much less how a…
No products in the cart.