German Wine

A very pale, watery-lemon colour. Pure and crystalline aromas of green citrus and apple blossom. The off-dry palate has supple pear and apple fruit, a core of lemony acidity sustaining it through to a focused finish.

Thanisch Estate Riesling Kabinett Weingut Dr H Thanisch (Thanisch) 2019

Thanisch Estate Riesling Kabinett Weingut Dr H Thanisch (Thanisch) 2020

Soft-shelled Mosel loveliness and clipped lemony precision, opening onto ample apricot fruit. This will mellow and meld with age but frankly, why wait when it’s this good now?!

The Marcobrunn site produces full-bodied wines which somehow lose their weight on tasting, giving way to a fresh, upbeat style. A combination of tropical, citrus and orchard fruits dance across the palate , their ripeness complemented by bright acidity – beautifully balanced

This has a spicy, stony-mineral nose, opening onto a similarly chiselled palate, which slowly reveals quince, tea-leaf spice and yellow flowers. The back-palate is very delicate, with an impressive weight of fruit and extract behind. Hedonists might prefer the straightforward Kabinett, those who appreciate fine bone structure should go for this. It really is a matter of taste. Both are good food wines

With an exceptionally warm growing season, this is richer than usual but with a pronounced bite of acidic tension and a salty tang on the finish, which works brilliantly with the slaty minerality – beautifully balanced.. The precise finish is rounded out by a lovely fleshy fruit residue coating the mouth. Textbook high quality Kabinett, seriously good

An honest, accessible, articulate translation of Riesling. Consumers have become a little puritanical in our approach to ripeness but sometimes, that little extra fruit accentuates and releases the minerality so that feinherb – “off-dry” achieves a lovely balance and a better reflection of fresh acidity. Here we have a plethora of orchard and exotic fruit, apples, pears and melon complemented by delightful floral notes –lovely definition and focus.

Alte reben means old vines (circa 40 years old). A slaty mineral nose leads into an upbeat, lively palate combining just enough rounded flesh with well-defined, crisp acidity.

Bernkasteler Badstube Riesling Kabinett Feinherb Dr H Thanisch (Thanisch) 2020

Berncasteler Kues Riesling Alte Reben Dr H. Thanisch (Thanisch) 2020

Pale gold in colour, this shows some texture in the glass. The nose expresses honeyed orchard fruit and flowers, very pretty end enticing. The palate provides an attractive mineral component, underpinning melon and stone fruit notes, zesty and focused

Hattenheimer Pfaffenberg Riesling Trocken Erstes Gewachs Schloss Schonborn 2011

Delectable German Pinot Noir, packed with cranberry and raspberry on the palate, a herby lift and persistent fruit ripeness on the finish.

Later picked grapes in this Spätlese add intensity at all levels and characte. This is balanced by an intricate delicacy of acidic bone structure and mineral tension. A beautifully complete nose, of fine crushed earth minerality, ripe lime, gooseberry and apricot fruit. The palate is powerful from the off, drivingly intense and with an unabashed potency which is really rather exciting.