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GERMANY
GE-2210. 10 OCKFENER BOCKSTEIN RIESLING KABINETT, ST. URBANS HOF
How Many bottles/singles: 19.99 each
GE-2211. 09 OCKFENER BOCKSTEIN RIESLING SPATLESE, ST. URBANS HOF Wine Spectator 94 - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: ‘Hinting at graphite, this white delivers peach, Golden Delicious apple, warm baking spice and citrus aromas and flavors. It's all matched to a firm, tightly wound structure, with the acidity topping the balance now. There's fine, stony length. Needs time. Best from 2014 through 2035.’
How Many bottles/singles: 26.99 each
GE-2212. 10 MOSEL RIESLING, CLEAN SLATE Clean, sweet, well balanced. Orchard and tropical fruits. Good extract. Perfect posture./ Yes, delicious proportions. Best vintage yet. 91/100.
How Many bottles/singles: 9.99 each
GE-2213. 10 MOSEL ESTATE RIESLING DR. L, DR. LOOSEN
How Many bottles/singles: 11.99 each
GE-2214. 09 MOSEL RIESLING MOSEL RIVER, ROBERT EYMAEL Made at Monchhof. Wow! Unique tropical fruit display. Vital, invigorating too. All the 09 fruit display you could want. Ventilating./ Sweet and sassy. Enough acid. Best yet. 91/100.
How Many bottles/singles: 10.99 each
GE-2215. 10 MOSEL ESTATE RIESLING, MONCHHOF
How Many bottles/singles: 15.99 each
GE-2216. 09 MOSEL RIESLING NOBLE HOUSE, DR. PAULY-BERGWEILER Mosel crisp, Mosel riesling scented. Lime and peach. Apple, loquat, nutmeg, flowers. Nicely etched. Just right. One of the best in the series./ Yowsa! Flavorful! Sweet peach and sweet citrus. Lively, piquant, balanced, and long. Delicious 09 combo of ripeness and raciness. 91/100.
How Many bottles/singles: 11.99 each
GE-2217. 10 MOSEL RIESLING URBAN, ST. URBANS HOF Fresh, crisp, upbeat, brittle. A measuring rod young 2010./ Riesling flavor, acid, balance. Modestly sweet. Well crafted. 91/100.
How Many bottles/singles: 9.99 each
GE-2218. 10 MOSEL ESTATE RIESLING, ST. URBANS HOF
How Many bottles/singles: 14.99 each
GE-2219. 09 MOSEL ESTATE RIESLING CLASSIC, DR. THANISCH ERBEN
How Many bottles/singles: 17.99 each
GE-2220. 10 PIESPORTER MICHELSBERG RIESLING SPATLESE, SAINT CHARLES Wow! Cool-vineyard lift, extract, tingle. Yeah!/ Peachy. Tender young spatlese sweetness. Attractive now, and will gain more textural richness. 90+/100.
How Many bottles/singles: 9.99 each
GE-2221. 10 PIESPORTER GOLDTROPFCHEN RIESLING AUSLESE, DR. KARL CHRISTOFFEL Fresh, alert, crisp, upbeat. Not sweet smelling./ Sweet enough auslese taste. Low in flavor expression in youth. Good acidity. Needs time to develop taste interest. 91+/100.
How Many bottles/singles: 16.99 each
GE-2222. 09 BERNKASTELER KURFURSTLAY RIESLING AUSLESE, J&H SELBACH Paragon of good 09. Fruit, but also with a crisp edge. Good to go now; wonderful. Bernkasteler attributes./ Fruit juicy good. Well balanced. As good as this gets. Outstanding wine and value. 92/100.
How Many bottles/singles: 14.99 each
GE-2223. 09 BERNKASTELER BADSTUBE RIESLING KABINETT, DR. H. THANISCH Wine Spectator 91: ‘This delivers sleek and well-integrated flavors of peach, apricot, gooseberry and orange, with nonstop freshness and minerality from start to finish. Notes of white pepper and spice mark the finish. Best from 2012 through 2026.’
GE-2225. 06 WEHLENER SONNENUHR RIESLING AUSLESE **, STUDERT-PRUM Very sweet and very Sonnenuhr. The slate and flowers and apple-peach./ Wonderfully sweet and wholesome, young and 06 unformed. But not baby fat. And enough acid. Splendid. 95+/100.
How Many bottles/singles: 31.99 each
GE-2226. 09 URZIGER WURZGARTEN RIESLING KABINETT, MONCHHOF Wine Spectator 91: ‘Lush yet delicate, displaying a silky mouthfeel and bright, focused flavors of baked apple, peach, quince and papaya. Offers excellent balance, with a bright, fluid acidity and a juicy finish, with notes of lemon curd. Now-2022. $20.’
How Many bottles/singles: 19.99 each
GE-2227. 10 MULHEIMER SONNENLAY RIESLING ZEPPELIN, MAX FERD. RICHTER Most popular wine on flights of Graf Zeppelin’s blimps, as the colorful label commemorates. Crisp and upbeat. Good to be a backwater Mosel village this vintage. You get more lift and vitality. Lots of material, extract. Fills the nostrils./ Admirable dryness and balance. And fruit flavor. Great job here. Outstanding. 92/100.
How Many bottles/singles: 11.99 each
GE-2228. 09 MERLER KONIGSLAY-TERRASSEN RIESLING AUSLESE, EDUARD KROTH Deep and well etched. Class lower Mosel riesling. Sweet, ripe fruit and botrytis extras. Fabulous aromatic range and depth./ Yes! Plenty of auslese fruit concentration, plus botrytis. Wow! A full fledged auslese with age potential. 94+/100.
How Many bottles/singles: 16.99 each
GE-2229. 06 SCHLOSSBOCKELHEIMER KONIGSFELS RIESLING KABINETT, PAUL ANHEUSER Golden./ Honey, cantaloupe, golden grain. At a nice stage./ Good resin development. A lovely stage indeed. Full grip and plumpness give yin-yang. I want. 92/100.
How Many bottles/singles: 14.99 each
GE-2230. 09 KREUZNACHER KRONENBERG RIESLING SPATLESE, ST. ANTONIUS Nice and zingy. Tingles the nostrils as usual. Stimulating, like an 08. Apple, quince, peach, lemon peel./ Yes, Kreuznach toned riesling fruit, with peach, orange, tropics, and flowers. Up front, polished, pretty. Carries the torch for this fine series. Yes! Liked by the group. 92+/100.
How Many bottles/singles: 8.99 each
GE-2231. 09 KREUZNACHER KRONENBERG RIESLING AUSLESE, ST. ANTONIUS Oh, boy! Bigger and more tingly still! Wow! HUGE extract. Stone fruits, honeydew./ Oh, gads! HUGE mouthful of peach, orange, orange peel. Unctuous. More power and depth than the spatlese. One HUGE auslese. A champion in this great series. 93+/100.
How Many bottles/singles: 9.99 each
GE-2232. 09 BURG LAYER SCHLOSSKAPELLE SPATLESE, ST. ANTONIUS Nice floral, herbal, edgy perfume of the German-cross varieties. Cool, aromatic, penetrating perfume./ Sweetness of 09. Surprisingly good acidity for vintage and non-riesling. Thus well balanced. Honeyed concentration of an auslese, really. One of the best in the series. 91+/100.
How Many bottles/singles: 9.99 each
GE-2233. 10 RHEINGAU RIESLING, WINZER VON ERBACH liter One of the best vintages of this. Bright and crisp, dry smelling with Rheingau intonations./ Yeah, light and lively and delicious. Enough Rheingau character. Good race of the zone Great bargain. 91/100.
How Many bottles/singles: 12.99 each
GE-2234. 08 RHEINGAU RIESLING CHARTA TROCKEN, HANS LANG Soars. Statuesque. Class, fruit, structure. Wonderful extract, size, dryness, thickness. Like the late 1800s Rheingaus. Full./ Bulky. Saturated with material. Dry, with good padding too. Just right. Spatlese ripeness. Flavor is long, big mouthful of satisfying Rheingau. 95+/100.
How Many bottles/singles: 19.99 each
GE-2235. 11 RUDESHEIMER DRACHENSTEIN DRAGONSTONE RIESLING, JOSEF LEITZ
How Many bottles/singles: 18.99 each
GE-2236. 08 WINKELER GUTENBERG RIESLING KABINETT HALBTROCKEN, KRAYER Sprightly. Dark toned, full figured 08. Grip and dry extract. Green grape tone of 08. Crisp, piquant citrus. Peach and loquat. Rocks galore. Uplifting./ Off dry. Good acidity. Juicy. Red fruit as well as white, especially red currant. Mealtime selection. 91/100.
How Many bottles/singles: 12.99 each
GE-2237. 09 WINKELER HASENSPRUNG RIESLING SPATLESE, KRAYER Founded 1866; Gold Preis - Hessen. Spatlese sweet and Rheingau golden fruited and grained. Right. 09 soft and forward. Beginning to show bottle bouquet already./ Ripe, fat fruit of 09, some botrytis, nice mineral edge. Adequate acidity for the vintage, so well enough balanced. Attractive now and later. 92+/100.
How Many bottles/singles: 15.99 each
GE-2238. 08 JOHANNISBERGER ERNTEBRINGER RIESLING KABINETT, KRAYER Edgy, minerally, apple-citrus Rheingau riesling nose. A rightful kabinett./ Great taste of apples, tropics. Long and balanced aftertaste. Yes! 91+/100.
How Many bottles/singles: 12.99 each
GE-2239. 07 JOHANNISBERGER KLAUS RIESLING AUSLESE, KRAYER Full, spicy, minerally, sweet, ripe, golden./ Yes full bodied auslese stuff. Good strength and presence. The acidity remains coated, so this doesn’t deliver the fruit-juiciness so many of the 07 kabinetts and spatleses have shown us, especially the Mosels. No problem. Just needs time. Well liked by the group, some of whom commented this was the best Krayer wine they’d tasted. Actually, I think this is the first time we’ve done one of his ausleses. 92+/100.
How Many bottles/singles: 19.99 each
GE-2240. 08 HATTENHEIMER RIESLING SPATLESE, KARL JOHANN MOLITOR The race, the golden orange tones, peel too. Reductive winemaking. Lots of chewy extract. Almost hard to swallow. A Rheingau patrician at a plebian price. 93+/100.
How Many bottles/singles: 14.99 each
GE-2241. 09 FRANKEN ESTATE SILVANER TROCKEN, HANS WIRSCHING Oh, boy! Nice and crisp, especially for 09. Dry, with silvaner green fruits. Ideal./ Fine fruit feel and flavor in 09 style. Well balanced . Great mealtime wine. The group loved it. 91/100.
How Many bottles/singles: 15.99 each
GE-2242. 10 RHEINHESSEN DORNFELDER, JANZ One of Germany’s most popular and successful red grape varieties. Fresh and fruity. Beaujolais aspects, like banana, cherry, and flowers. Empyreumatic notions too: smoke, tar, and coffee grounds./ One large dornfelder. Good grip. Not too much tannin. Full of life. Wants food. 90/100.
How Many bottles/singles: 11.99 each
GE-2243. 10 RHEINHESSEN DORNFELDER, VALCKENBERG Cool and typical. Herb and underripe red fruits./ Sweet. Soft, flavorful. Mild, right. Popular sweet red category. 89/100.
How Many bottles/singles: 11.99 each
GE-2244. 09 RHEINHESSEN DORNFELDER BAUER HAUS, WEIN BAUER A good one. Lovely sweet, forward beauties of the vintage. A really nice example of dornfelder./ Clear. Low acidity. Fresh. No complaints for fans of this grape and style. Does it right. 90/100.
How Many bottles/singles: 9.99 each
GE-2245. 09 RHEINHESSEN BACCHUS, JANZ Oh yes! That catty, grassy, bulb flower aromatic set that has some sauvignon blanc earmarks. This is bacchus!/ Lush peach and nectarine flavors with tangy quince edge. Liked by the group. 90/100.
How Many bottles/singles: 11.99 each
GE-2246. 09 RHEINHESSEN GRAUER BURGUNDER AUSLESE, JANZ Lovely, subtle melange of apple, peach, nut, wax, and melon (especially)./ Yes, pinot gris nut, wax, and melon all the way. Lovely sweetness level with enough acid. Unique pinot gris. 92+/100.
How Many bottles/singles: 11.99 each
GE-2247. 09 RHEINHESSEN SCHEUREBE SPATLESE, JANZ Frothy rim./ Still in the primary phase, with fermentation remainders. Valid scheu orange, lemon peel, gooseberry, and flowers./ Good varietal flavor, if not fully intense yet. Sweetness still coats the acidity. 09 ease. Needs some months for sugar-acid balance and flavor development. Then pair with spicy pork dishes. 91+/100.
How Many bottles/singles: 11.99 each
GE-2248. 09 RHEINHESSEN RHEIN RIVER RIESLING, GUNDERLOCH Tingly and penetrating, especially for Hessia. Quite an achievement./ Flavorful. Well textured. Intense, persistent flavor. Really pushes it out for the money. 92/100.
How Many bottles/singles: 10.99 each
GE-2249. 09 RHEINHESSEN ESTATE DIVA RIESLING SPATLESE, GUNDERLOCH From three sites. Sweet peach and tangerine. Upscale vintage nature. Good Rheinfront definition./ Sweet, with a nice citrus tang. The acid’s still coated. Gonna be nice. 92+/100.
How Many bottles/singles: 23.99 each
GE-2250. 09 RHEINHESSEN RIESLING STIFTSWEIN DRY, LIEBFRAUENSTIFT From the vineyard surrounding the Liebfrauenkirche in Worms, the original home of Liebfraumilch. Good zip and acid for site and vintage. Well textured smell./ Rheinhessen full. Uniquely brisk for Rheinhessen. Good stuff. 90/100.
How Many bottles/singles: 14.99 each
GE-2251. 10 NIERSTEINER HIPPING RIESLING SPATLESE, G-A SCHNEIDER This just soars! Classic Hipping tangerine aroma. Perfect posture./ Sweet on entry. The acidity comes through in the back. Will come into balance with a few more months’ bottle age. 92+/100.
How Many bottles/singles: 15.99 each
GE-2252. 08 NIERSTEINER OLBERG RIESLING KABINETT, EUGEN WEHRHEIM
How Many bottles/singles: 12.99 each
GE-2253. 09 NIERSTEINER PATERBERG GEWURZTRAMINER SPATLESE, EUGEN WEHRHEIM Rich, sweet, racy and tonic. Logical 09 Hessen gewurz./ Waxy gewurz with spatlese sweetness. 09 softness balanced by good gewurz astringency. 91/100.
How Many bottles/singles: 15.99 each
GE-2254. 08 NIERSTEINER REHBACH RIESLING SPATLESE, EUGEN WEHRHEIM Rich peach and nectarine. Especially rich for 08. Near auslese. There’s a certain grip of 08 extract here../ Very sweet. Sweetness covers the acidity. No botrytis. This is a heavyweight. Must be auslese. 92+/100.
How Many bottles/singles: 15.99 each
GE-2255. 09 OPPENHEIMER RIESLING KABINETT , DR. HEYDEN
How Many bottles/singles: 11.99 each
GE-2256. 08 OPPENHEIMER SACKTRAGER RIESLING AUSLESE , DR. HEYDEN Wow! Surges forth. Huge extract concentration is palpable; tingles the nostrils. Also sweet, thick, and loaded./ Yes, the sweetness, the concentration of both sugar and extract and acidity is awesome. Peach, apricot, tea, and fine cigarette tobacco notes of botrytis. Loaded indeed. Very popular with the group. 95+/100.
How Many bottles/singles: 19.99 each
GE-2257. 04 BECHTOLSHEIMER PETERSBERG RIESLING EISWEIN, ERNST BRETZ half bottle More fruit development that on the last encounters. No evergreen, just a ripening sense of peach-apricot. The incisive horseradish tingle is still there. Sure sign of youth retention./ Yes, and on the palate the horseradish nip of young eiswein also. Acidity nice and ripe though. Many years of life ahead. 94+/100.
GE-2259. 09 PFALZ ESTATE RIESLING, BURKLIN-WOLF Peach, apple aromas. Citrus peel zing. Well extracted. Reductive winemaking. A vigorous face of 09./ Very juicy and very flavorful. Plenty of dry extract. Compact, concentrated fruit core. Great winemaking. Fabulous riesling. Pushes the 08. Dry, engaging, tangy, meal-worthy. 92+/100.
How Many bottles/singles: 18.99 each
GE-2260. 09 PFALZ RIESLING SAINT M, DR. LOOSEN Ernst Loosen, proprietor. Oh, yeah! Pfalz power, dryness. Dried peach, grain, nuts./ Yes, great Pfalz riesling ID. The dried stone fruits and the golden grains. Brilliant Pfalz value, nearly as good as the Burklin-Wolf, and cheaper. Fine extract and acid. Off dry. Long. 92/100.
How Many bottles/singles: 10.99 each
GE-2261. 09 PFALZ ORTEGA BEERENAUSLESE, J. RAABE half liter Oh, yes! Real and right, clear and concentrated! Tingles. Spiced peach, apricot, caramel, tangerine. Positively seductive./ Yes, very spicy and vigorous. Silk textured. Great balance of sweetness and acidity. Long, flavorful, classic. Hallmark ortega, more about high varietal concentration than botrytis. The price is right. Well liked by the group. 97/100.
GE-2263. 09 DEIDESHEIMER LETTEN RIESLING TROCKEN, STUDIER Fresh, Pfalz grainy, clear, crisp. Fabulous./ Yes, dry and racy, with fine whole grain flavors and burnished texture. Deep and long taste. 93/100.
How Many bottles/singles: 18.99 each
GE-2264. 09 HAINFELDER KIRCHENSTUCK PINOT GRIS TROCKEN, THEODORUS Full (14%), tingly, nutty, waxy. Intense pinot gris through and through. Really penetrates. Scorched cream, plenty of fruit, floral overtones. Lithe, sleek, elegant, sexy./ Yes, apple, quince, nut varietal character. Great astringency. Racy, flavorful, full bodied and textured. Nutty-creamy core and stony brace. Theodorus knows how to make German dinner wines! Well liked by the group. 92+/100.
How Many bottles/singles: 11.99 each
GE-2265. 09 SIEBELDINGER IM SONNENSCHEIN RIESLING HOCHGEWACHS TROCKEN, THEODORUS Oh, my god! Total grip and intensity! Grand Grosses Gewachs style. Buckwheat honey concentration without the sweetness./ Dry, fragrant, Pfalz dried fruit and grain. Full strength and body. To the table, please. 93+/100.
GE-2267. 09 BADEN PINOT GRIS TROCKEN, FRANZ KELLER The real deal. Strength and body of Baden./ Wow! Fullness, grip. Extremely impressive. 13% alcohol. Discovery of the Day so far. 92/100.
How Many bottles/singles: 24.99 each
AUSTRIA
GE-2269. 07 BURGENLAND ZWEIGELT, HEINRICH Parker 90 - EXCELLENT VALUE: ‘Black cherry, purple plum, almond, and fresh fig inform this generous, invigoratingly spicy and saline wine, a faint hint of cherry pit bitterness helping to add contrast to the penetrating, stimulating finish. Concentrated, sappy, primary fresh fruit and distilled fruit overtones make a superb case for the potential of this indigenous red crossing and for this vintage.’
How Many bottles/singles: 19.99 each
GE-2270. 10 NIEDEROSTERREICH ZWEIGELT TROCKEN, LENZ MOSER liter Lightly fruity. Bright and good juicy berry-cherry fruit./ Cool and clear. Great acid, juice. Value. 91/100.
How Many bottles/singles: 11.99 each
GE-2271. 10 NIEDEROSTERREICH ZWEIGELT CHERRY, PFAFFL Oh, yes! Bright, cool, crunchy cherry. No green herbs. Touch of leather. Perfectly positioned young zweigelt./ Light and lively. Delicious flavor and follow-through. Love its light-hearted disposition. 91/100.
How Many bottles/singles: 14.99 each
GE-2272. OSTERREICH GRUNER VELTLINER LANDWEIN TROCKEN, ECKER liter Dry indeed. Appealing varietal character: apple, sickle pear, chalk, legume./ Lots of pear and apple flavors. Great edge and appeal of a trocken gruve. Not austere though; there’s a flattering measure of softness at the core. 91/100.
GE-2274. 08 NIEDEROSTERREICH GRUNER VELTLINER SINGING, V. & SOPHIE LAURENZ Very good 08 body, texture, extract. And that’s just on the nose./ Full, and fulfilled at this age. Apple and snap pea. Juicy. Very satisfying. Well liked by the group. 91/100.
How Many bottles/singles: 14.99 each
GE-2275. 09 NIEDEROSTERREICH GRUNER VELTLINER GREEN EYES LOVE OVER MONEY, HERMANN MOSER Good, full, dry gruve. Apple, peel, snow pea. This is right./ Yes, this is full indeed. Just right at this stage. Has it all. Fine value. The group agreed. 91/100.
How Many bottles/singles: 11.99 each
GE-2276. 10 NIEDEROSTERREICH GRUNER VELTLINER TROCKEN, LENZ MOSER liter Good and crisp. Rightful gruve apple and legume aromas./ Good fruit, balance, flavor, feel. Softly trocken. Good value in liter. 91/100.
How Many bottles/singles: 11.99 each
GE-2277. 10 WACHAU TERRASSEN GRUNER VELTLINER, DOMAINE WACHAU Boy, this is full and expressive. Apple, legume, and lemon. Everything it should be./ Yeah, more snow pea. Full and round. Good acidity. Well proportioned. Very, very good. 91/100.
How Many bottles/singles: 14.99 each
GE-2278. 09 KREMSTAL GRUNER VELTLINER PER DUE, HERMANN MOSER Full and right. Green apple, green pear, legume. At once voluminous and crisp./ Full extract and acidity. Really fills every corner of the palate. Plump, crisp, altogether spot on gruve. Over delivers. 92/100.
How Many bottles/singles: 14.99 each
GE-2279. 10 KREMSTAL GRUNER VELTLINER, STADT KREMS Great peel, texture, flavor. 92/100.
GE-2281. 10 KAMPTAL LOIS GRUNER VELTLINER TROCKEN, LOIMER Lois is not a woman’s name in this case; it’s another spelling of loess–wine-borne soil that covers much of lower Austria. Wonderful apple and lima gruve aroma, so clear./ Yes, clear and fresh. Soft acid some mineral salt. Lithe on the finish. 91/100.
How Many bottles/singles: 14.99 each
GE-2282. 10 KAMPTAL GOBELSBURGER GRUNER VELTLINER, SCHLOSS GOBELSBURG
How Many bottles/singles: 16.99 each
GE-2283. 10 WAGRAM GRUNER VELTLINER, JOSEPH BAUER
How Many bottles/singles: 11.99 each
GE-2284. 10 BURGENLAND GRUNER VELTLINER, HOPLER Good and full. Lima mealiness./ Full textured. Appealing. Body and relatively mild acidity of zone. Good. 91/100.
GE-2286. 08 WAGRAM HENGSTBERG RIESLING, JOSEPH BAUER Lovely riesling nose. Cool peach./ Dry, sleek, well poised. Plenty of flavor intensity. Grip of 08. Lookin’ good! 92/100.
How Many bottles/singles: 14.99 each
HUNGARY
GE-2288. 09 EGRI MERLOT, ESZESVIN From overripe grapes picked in November; aged 6 months in oak barrels. Sweet and pleasing merlot cherry fruit aroma. Rightful, and sure to be popular. Persistent, giving./ Yes, sweet and neat. Surprising, welcome, entertaining flavor range that includes spicy extras. There are many customers for this. 90/100.