Germany wines in the Flickinger Fine Wines inventory http://www.flickingerwines.com/wineregions/german.asp http://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/AugustAnheuser.asphttp://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/AugustAnheuser.asphttp://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/AugustAnheuser.asphttp://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/AugustAnheuser.asphttp://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/CHBerres.aspWA 99 (10/2009): The over-ripe pear and quince featured in other nobly sweet wines of this collection are very much present in Donnhoff's 2007 Schlossbockelheimer Felsenberg Riesling Beerenauslese, along with aromas of distilled gentian, gardenia, lemon oil, freshly baked bread, and white truffle. The intensity of inner-mouth perfume here - orchard fruit, floral, and herbal distillates - is nearly beyond belief. Pear nectar, quince preserves, apple jelly, liquid gardenia, brown spices, and a certain saline and smoky suggestions of things mineral inform a finish of trance-inducing duration. This amazing elixir - harvested largely in the Turmchen section of the site - should be worthy of 40 years cellaring. When Donnhoff laughingly referred to this as the year of Felsenberg, he was not in fact kidding, nor was he referring just to the sheer number of bottlings! IWC 97 (1/2009): Rich golden yellow. Sublime aromas of candied citrus fruits, lemon oil and acacia honey. The succulent weight of papaya fruit levitates over the wine's understated minerality. The palate-staining finish boasts an impeccable balance of creamy fruit, smoky botrytis and herbal spices. An outstanding effort for the vintage!http://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/WeingutHermannDonnhoff.aspJG 91 (3/2016): The 2015 Lenz bottling from Emrich-Schönleber is just a tad higher in acidity than the Estate Trocken bottling, tipping the scales at a full nine grams per liter, but the wine is seamlessly balanced and integrates these snappy acids beautifully. The bouquet is really superb, delivering a fine mélange of apple, sweet grapefruit, dried flowers, a fine base of soil, orange peel and a nice touch of smokiness on top. On the palate the wine is medium-full, pure and succulent on the attack, with a fine core, lovely focus and grip, impressive precision and a long, classy finish. Another really fine value in this vintage! 2016-2035. WA 87 (12/2016): From the reddish soils of the Frühlingsplätzchen, the medium-dry 2015 Riesling Lenz offers a very bright, clear and floral bouquet with rather tropical fruits (pineapples) and comes along as a round and charming Riesling with a filigreed structure and finessed texture. The refreshing acidity is well integrated and gives the juicy fruit perfect balance. This wine contains 13 grams of residual sugar and can be enjoyed over 5-8 years, or probably more.http://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/WeingutEmrich-Schonleber.aspJG 92+ (3/2016): The 2015 Monzinger Kabinett is a lovely example of the vintage, with perhaps not quite the ethereal delicacy of the finest Kabinetten from the middle Mosel or Rheinhessen, but still plenty of filigree and lovely complexity and balance. The wine is ten percent alcohol and carries forty-three grams per liter of residual sugar to balance its fully nine grams per liter of acidity this year. The bouquet is lovely, wafting from the glass in a blend of tart orange, pink grapefruit, plenty of smokiness, wild yeasts, lovely minerality, a touch of mossiness and a topnote of dried flowers. On the palate the wine is medium-full, crisp and light on its feet, with superb focus and grip, classic Kabinett filigree and a very long, vibrant and nascently complex finish. A lovely example. 2016-2040. WA 90 (12/2016): The 2015 Riesling Monzinger Kabinett is very clear, ripe and spicy on the nose, but it's also piquant in its stoniness. On the palate, it has lovely elegance, finesse and purity, and the 42 grams of residual sugar are perfectly integrated. The finish is stimulatingly light and salty. This is a picture book Kabinett.http://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/WeingutEmrich-Schonleber.asphttp://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/Engelhaus.asphttp://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/GerhardGrans.asphttp://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/WeingutKeller.aspWA 94-95 (8/2016): Citrus-colored, the 2015 Dalsheim Hubacker Riesling Trocken GG has a really ripe, intense, yet elegant and almost tropical-flavored bouquet. It does not lack the precision and chalky lemon flavor of the "Hubi" limestone rock terroir. Powerful, dense and complex on the palate, this has the grip and mineral tension of a great wine. This is probably the most vital and concentrated "Hubi" I have tasted so far. It is enormously salty and tension-filled, but at the same time very fine and as fruit-drive as it is chalk-driven. The finish is tight, long, pure and powerful, and its endless salinity, piquancy and tension make it incredibly stimulating. This is a great dry German Riesling or, as Keller puts it: "This is how Hubacker should taste."http://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/WeingutKeller.aspKeller's 2015 Riesling Trocken is clear, precise, ripe and fresh. This is an aromatic, limestone-Riesling classic with some lovely flavors of crushed stones. The wine is dry, but round and aromatic, very elegant and finesse-full. This is a charming Riesling that finishes with a pretty long, intense and aromatic aftertaste with a stimulating purity and salinity. A Best Buy and probably the finest VDP Rheinhessen Gutswein of the vintage.http://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/WeingutKeller.aspWA 88 (10/2008): The 2006 Riesling R.R. trocken comes from young vines in lower portions of the Kirchspiel that are high in iron content and thus red in color. Unlike Keller’s two less-expensive dry Riesling, this is vinified in cask. Fresh red raspberry, sweetly-perfumed flowers, and salted pistachio dominate this piquant, pungently smoky, mineral, and impressively concentrated Riesling. Hints of resin and lanolin from the large but youthful barrel make themselves evident in the finish, and this lacks quite the clarity or lip-smacking juiciness of the von der Fels bottling.http://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/WeingutKeller.asphttp://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/WeingutKeller.asphttp://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/WeingutKeller.aspIWC 91 (2/2008): Rich golden yellow. Heady aromas of candied pineapple, toasted almond and vanilla mingle with brown spice botrytis tones. The sweet tropical fruit flavors show good weight and flow creamily over the palate. Finely spiced on the long finish.http://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/WeingutKeller.aspIWC 93 (2/2007): Rich golden yellow.Rich aromas of yellow plum, cinnamon and clove shine through the botrytis. Succulent, impressively deep papaya fruit is framed and lifted by vibrant, elegant acidity.Finishes with palate-staining persistence.http://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/WeingutKeller.aspWA 93-94 (8/2016): From 51-year-old vines on very barren rocks, Keller's 2015 Westhofen Kirchspiel Riesling Trocken GG is clear, intense and precise on the nose. It is very ripe and concentrated, provided with refreshingly chalky lemon and even discreet mocha/nougat flavors. Great purity and vitality on the palate, but it also has lots of power! Its power is very well captured by the concentration of everything: fruit, minerals and acidity. The 2015 Kirchspiel is full of terroir and vintage expression, a dense and round, yet tension-filled and vitalizing Riesling. This wine has a very linear and straight-forward character, with an enormous complexity and power, as well as finesse, grip and minerality. Keller's Kirchspiel was picked in two passes: one earlier and one later. "It was important to keep the grapes shadowed and to not pick too early," says Keller, who was still full of fear in August, due to the drought and heat. But he is pretty happy with the result, today.http://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/WeingutKeller.aspVM 94 (1/2007): Rich golden yellow. Overwhelming aromas of yellow plum, vanilla and cinnamon shine through the musky botrytis. The lavishly sweet fruit shows considerable weight and enormous depth, but is nicely balanced by the vibrantly elegant play of acidity on the palate.Extremely sweet and long, with superb depth and rich spice on the finish.http://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/WeingutKeller.aspWS 81 (11/1994): Another simple fresh wine with light floral, lemon character. Light-bodied and slightly sweet with a crisp finish. Drink now.http://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/KlosterEberbach.asphttp://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/AdolfLotzbeyer.asphttp://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/VillaPalatina.aspVM 94 (11/2016): This is amazingly bright and sassy for an Auslese, its meld of fresh apple, lime, cherry and herbs being well marked by fruit skin chewiness and piquancy of pips and pits. The infectiously juicy, invigoratingly tangy, mouthwateringly saline finish soars and exhilarates. David Shildknecht. WS 94 (3/2017): Richly spiced, with apple, green pear, peach and ripe citrus flavors that are seamlessly woven together. Lively minerality shows midpalate, presenting some savory notes on the slightly honeyed and intensely focused finish, lifted by sublime acidity. Best from 2020 through 2040. 40 cases imported. WA 92 (3/2016): The 2014 Riesling Bernkasteler Badstube Auslese (AP #15), which was picked on October 22-23 with 100° Oechsle, opens with slate, super ripe and overripe Riesling flavors, as well as some botrytis flavors. Sweet, piquant and elegant on the palate, with a fine and silky texture, concentrated fruit and very fine acidity, this is a racy and spicy Auslese that blends botrytised Riesling flavors with the piquancy of the Mosel slate.http://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/JJPrum.asphttp://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/JJPrum.asphttp://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/JJPrum.aspWA 95 (3/2016): The gold-capsuled 2014 Riesling Graacher Himmelreich Auslese GK (AP #18) represents a botrytis selection and offers highly delicate fruit and flinty-slate aromas, where tropical fruit aromas mingle with wet stone flavors. The attack on the palate is racy and piquant; the wine is complex and very pure, highly elegant and finesse-full, yet intense and concentrated, with ripe pineapple flavors and a pure, salty, very mineral finish. This is highly delicate Riesling with a complex terroir expression. VM 95 (11/2016): This non-auction gold-capsule bottling delivers a multifaceted nose featuring candied lime peel, apple and quince jellies, heliotrope and an intriguing meld of yeasty stale bread, florally honeyed and subtly truffly manifestations of botrytis. The creamy, expansive palate reprises all of the aforementioned elements, but also introduces generous parallel juiciness of fresh apple and lime. Displaying wonderful lift and delicacy, the lusciously lingering finish is transparent to stony, crystalline and floral nuances. WS 95 (3/2017): This has flavors of peach pie and apricot tart that are well-honeyed and filled with creamy unctuousness. Pastry notes show midpalate, with a finish that offers savory richness and plenty of minerally accents. A pure and powerful style. Best from 2018 through 2038. 40 cases imported.http://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/JJPrum.aspWA 95 (3/2016): The gold-capsuled 2014 Riesling Graacher Himmelreich Auslese GK (AP #18) represents a botrytis selection and offers highly delicate fruit and flinty-slate aromas, where tropical fruit aromas mingle with wet stone flavors. The attack on the palate is racy and piquant; the wine is complex and very pure, highly elegant and finesse-full, yet intense and concentrated, with ripe pineapple flavors and a pure, salty, very mineral finish. This is highly delicate Riesling with a complex terroir expression. VM 95 (11/2016): This non-auction gold-capsule bottling delivers a multifaceted nose featuring candied lime peel, apple and quince jellies, heliotrope and an intriguing meld of yeasty stale bread, florally honeyed and subtly truffly manifestations of botrytis. The creamy, expansive palate reprises all of the aforementioned elements, but also introduces generous parallel juiciness of fresh apple and lime. Displaying wonderful lift and delicacy, the lusciously lingering finish is transparent to stony, crystalline and floral nuances. WS 95 (3/2017): This has flavors of peach pie and apricot tart that are well-honeyed and filled with creamy unctuousness. Pastry notes show midpalate, with a finish that offers savory richness and plenty of minerally accents. A pure and powerful style. Best from 2018 through 2038. 40 cases imported.http://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/JJPrum.aspWA 95 (3/2016): The gold-capsuled 2014 Riesling Graacher Himmelreich Auslese GK (AP #18) represents a botrytis selection and offers highly delicate fruit and flinty-slate aromas, where tropical fruit aromas mingle with wet stone flavors. The attack on the palate is racy and piquant; the wine is complex and very pure, highly elegant and finesse-full, yet intense and concentrated, with ripe pineapple flavors and a pure, salty, very mineral finish. This is highly delicate Riesling with a complex terroir expression. VM 95 (11/2016): This non-auction gold-capsule bottling delivers a multifaceted nose featuring candied lime peel, apple and quince jellies, heliotrope and an intriguing meld of yeasty stale bread, florally honeyed and subtly truffly manifestations of botrytis. The creamy, expansive palate reprises all of the aforementioned elements, but also introduces generous parallel juiciness of fresh apple and lime. Displaying wonderful lift and delicacy, the lusciously lingering finish is transparent to stony, crystalline and floral nuances. WS 95 (3/2017): This has flavors of peach pie and apricot tart that are well-honeyed and filled with creamy unctuousness. Pastry notes show midpalate, with a finish that offers savory richness and plenty of minerally accents. A pure and powerful style. Best from 2018 through 2038. 40 cases imported.http://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/JJPrum.aspVM 94+ (11/2016): This is especially shrouded by yeasty and otherwise fermentative aromas, but site-typical apple, pear and vanilla emerge. The creamy, delicate and expansive palate offers a delightful, chiffon-like mingling of fresh and glazed, confitured fruits. Vanilla bean and fruit seeds provide counterpoint on a lusciously lingering finish transparent to stony and saline inflections as well as haunting floral nuances. WS 94 (3/2017): Crunchy and minerally, with plenty of fresh acidity behind the flavors of green apple, peach, pear tart and lemon bar. Slate accents show midpalate, leading to a snappy finish that offers savory candied herbal elements. Best from 2020 through 2040. 120 cases imported. WA 92 (3/2016): The 2014 Riesling Wehlener Sonnenuhr Kabinett is more open than the Graacher Himmelreich (#AP 19) and displays a very delicate bouquet of white fruits intermixed with vegetal and subtle slate aromas. Refined and juicy on the palate, this wine has a perfect balance of a fruity sweetness and a finely racy acidity. This Kabinett is very expressive and complex in its mineral and grippy finish. It is impressively long in the finish, but due to the piquancy and minerality, not due to alcohol that is just 8%. The Sonnenuhr is more complex and intense than the more delicate and filigreed Himmelreich.http://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/JJPrum.asphttp://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/CastellarSchlossberg.asphttp://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/FreiherrvonSchorlemer-Liefer.asphttp://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/VerwaltungderStaatlichenWeinbaudomanenTrier.asp