Just a day after that VDP wine auction for the Rheingau region, I returned to Kloster Eberbach for the big public presentation of 2010 Great Growth wines of all VDP member estates. Since I missed previous opportunities to taste these wines, I was more than happy to attend this brilliant event.

The 2010 vintage didn’t have an easy start as numerous media already condemned it as a sour (white) wine vintage at a time when harvest wasn’t even fully brought in. And it’s true that for many of the estate’s basic Rieslings, qualities are rather heterogenous. For the Great Growths however, I read more and more opinons that are highly praising this new vintage, even putting it above last year’s great success. Read the rest of this entry »

Hochheimer Lagen

Zurzeit wird im Weingut Künstler die 2008er Kollektion in ihrer Vollständigkeit vorgestellt, also inklusive der Ersten Gewächse, welche bei der Probe im Mai selbstredend noch nicht zur Verfügung standen. Read the rest of this entry »

Some of the fine vines of Hochheim

As every year, Künstler presented his newest vintage at the Estate in Hochheim. The sky was overcast, but it was warm and the thrill of the 2007 vintage allured guests on its own. Here are some of the wines I tried: Read the rest of this entry »