(90+ points) Martin Franzen's 2021 Haardt Riesling offers a clear, pretty dense and mineral bouquet of just-ripe fruits and notes of crushed stones. Though not very aromatic, the nose is coolish, discreet and spicy, with...

The 2022 Weissburgunder Deidensheimer Langenmorgen Grosses Gewächs is on loam and loamy sand, including sandstone and limestone debris. This was fermented and aged in second-use Stück. The slight oak creaminess is...

(95+ points) Jordan has cultivated the cru that makes up the 2022 Forster Jesuitengarten Riesling GG since 1793, so more than 230 years. The vineyard is very complex in its soil structure but rather flat and warm. The...

From a plateau west of the village with deeper loamy and loamy-sandy soils with clay and calcareous deposits, the 2022 Deidesheimer Kieselberg Riesling GG opens with a deep and intense, rather coolish bouquet of fully...

The 2022 Deidesheimer Hohenmorgen Riesling GG opens with a deep, intense and aromatic bouquet of ripe and juicy stone fruits intermingled with coolish stony notes and a certain salinity. Elegant and fresh on the palate...

Bassermann's 2022 Deidesheimer Kalkofen Riesling GG offers a pure, clear, fresh and intense, very elegant and stimulating nose of ripe, white and yellow stone fruits intertwined with saline and limestony notes. Vital and...

The 2022 Riesling Forster Pechstein Grosses Gewächs is the only GG that was fermented in large barrels, without the smaller Stück. The nose still has a hint of yeasty funk, but gentle Mirabelle already shines through. The...

The 2022 Riesling Forster Kirchenstück Grosses Gewächs is the warmest site in Deidesheim, a clos with a sandstone wall on weathered limestone with basalt inclusions. An initial flicker of pineapple disappears again, and...

(93+ points) The 2022 Forster Ungeheuer Riesling GG opens with a deep, fine but intense bouquet of ripe fruits intertwined with iodine notes that add complexity and richness and reduces the "just fruitiness...

(92+ points) The intensely yellow-colored 2022 Ruppertsberger Reiterpfad Riesling 1G is intense and pure on the nose that combines ripe and concentrated fruit aromas with flinty/mineral and leafy notes of crushed rocks...

(93+ points) From 45+-year-old vines on yellow colored sandstone soils, the 2021 Bürgergarten Riesling VDP. Erste Lage reveals dense and fully ripe fruit with clear, refreshingly mineral, lemon and herbal notes. It is...