Mosel River, German Wine Region. Riesling

Germany

The 102,000 hectares of German vineyards produce some of the world’s greatest white wines from the Riesling grape. With a run of excellent vintages, top estate wines are at long last fashionable, with Riesling finally getting the acknowledgement it deserves. Its touch of sweetness is underpinned by racy acidity and a fresh purity from the fruit. Climate change that has produced rising temperatures has allowed the production of high-quality Pinot Noir from a variety of German wine regions. Typically these wines are of a premium quality, with firmness, spice and persistence on the palate.

Many of Germany’s best vineyards are on the steepest slopes, quite unsuited to anything other than the vine. Overlooking the Rivers Rhine, Neckar, Main, Nahe, Ahr, Mosel and its tributaries, their high cost of cultivation is justified only by the quality of the wine they can produce. In the steep vineyards, three times as many man-hours are spent tending the vine as is the case on flat or gently sloping terrain.

  • Weingut Eckehart Gröhl

    This 13th generation winemaking family is now run by young brother and sister team Johannes and Franziska Gröhl. The wines are from historic single sites such as as the Niersteiner Pettenthal, the Niersteiner Ölberg and Niersteiner Hölle in the Rheinhessen, and are lively, pure and very long-lived.

    The wines are made with a high degree of sustainability and consciousness, and are in conversion to becoming certified organic from 2022.

    Johannes Gröhl was awarded Young German Winemaker of the Year, 2022 by the renowned Falstaff magazine in Germany.

    *YOUNG GUN WINEMAKER

    *LIGHT, FRESH, ZESTY WINES

    *HIGHLY SUSTAINABLE

  • Weingut Leipold

    Peter is part of a young revolution of winemakers in Franken fighting the good fight and shouting about it! With 2 years working under Klaus Peter Keller before a stint for Liger-Belair in Burgundy, he certainly has got the right CV to create something special.

    He describes their work as "near-natural cultivation, meaning that we treat soil and living beings as gently as possible" and produce thoughtfully made, properly soil-driven wines with personality in classical expressions.

    *YOUNG GUN WINEMAKER (FUTURE STAR WITH GREAT WINE-MAKING PEDIGREE)