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Mosel - Riesling
- ABV 8.5%
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2019 - 2029
This has pliancy and cushioning of fruit, with notes of grapefruit and lychee, offset against precise, zippy acidity. Joyful, this offers excellent value
The Badstube is wonderfully open in style, food-friendly, ripe, yet focused – lovely wine
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Mosel - Riesling
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2023 - 2027
The Estate Riesling comes mainly from vineyards around Kues, on the left bank of the Mosel. Aromas of lemon, lime and pepper herald a supple, pliant palate of white peach, green apple and lemon zest. 10% abv. Bottled in April 2022 under screwcap.
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Mosel - Riesling
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2020 - 2024
The Estate Riesling comes mainly from vineyards around Kues, on the left bank of the Mosel. This hits the ground running – and does so while exuding that soft-shelled Mosel loveliness and clipped lemony precision. You can sense the warm 2018 summer here, in the ripe, ample
apricot fruit. Drink this as soon as you get your hands on it. Although it will mellow and meld with bottle age - why wait when it is so good now
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Mosel - Riesling
- ABV 8.0%
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2023 - 2032
The more generous sibling of the Feinherb (below). The only difference is the length of fermentation, which here is halted earlier, making this a touch richer and allowing a lovely low alcohol level of 8% abv. Candied citrus and fresh lime, with wet-stone minerality. Hard to think of a better bottle for a warm summer’s day. Bottled under screwcap.
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Mosel - Riesling
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2023 - 2027
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.
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Mosel - Riesling
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2023 - 2030
This ferments for slightly longer than the ‘straight’ Kabinett (above), resulting in a marginally drier style. Pronounced slaty mineral aromas, with clean green citrus fruit. The palate is juicy and supple on the attack, finding a tangy focus on the mid-palate, with a slaty-mineral bite and texture to the finish. 10% abv. Bottled under screwcap.
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Mosel - Riesling
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2023 - 2035
Lemon and lime rind, with wet-stone minerality, this is a mere 8% abv and was fermented a little longer than usual, resulting in a drier style. Candied tension to the finish. This will keep but it’s so tempting to enjoy it early.
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Mosel - Riesling
- ABV 8.0%
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2027 - 2036
Badstube is a huge vineyard, running north to Graacher
Himmelreich. The Thanisch holdings are all at the
Bernkastel end however. Nervy and tightly packed
when tasted, this has an explosive drive, matched blowfor-blow by its impressive volume of pear fruit, tinned
peach and herbs - wonderfully precise
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Mosel - Riesling
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2026 - 2036
The Thanisch holdings are at the southern Bernkastel end of the large Badstube vineyard. Flinty mineral aromas with lemon rind, showing the cooler aspect of 2020 on the nose. The palate is soft-shelled and giving, the quince, lemon and apple crumble flavours making for an approachable yet multi-faceted, age-worthy wine. The zesty acidity underscores the energy. 8.5% abv.
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Mosel - Riesling
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2024 - 2036
The celebrated Doctor vineyard produces wines which are richer than its Kabinett siblings yet with a more pronounced bite of acidic tension and a salty tang on the finish, which works brilliantly with the slaty minerality. The precise finish is rounded out by a lovely fleshy fruit residue coating the palate. Textbook high quality Kabinett, seriously good.
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Mosel - Riesling
- ABV 12.5%
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2024 - 2040
Bernkasteler Graben is adjacent to the Doctor vineyard. Soaring, exuberant aromas of green apple, lemon rind and white and yellow flowers. The palate is slaty-mineral, with quince, lemon and lime fruit. The acidity is beautifully pitched, harmonious and poised. A long-lived wine which will nonetheless shine in its first flush of youth. 12% abv.
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Mosel - Riesling
- ABV 12.0%
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2025 - 2040
The style of Graben is “really straight and clear”. The vines here are 60-80 years old. The family has a 0.5 hectare holding here, all of which is used for the GG. This is cool, focused and steely on the nose. The citric palate revels in lime zest, with a tangy, grapefruity finish. Crisp and cleansing, with serious ageing potential ahead. 12% abv. Bottled in July 2022. The whole production fits in one old oak foudre and one stainless steel tank.
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