Riesling

Bone-dry, lime-driven Riesling with mouth-watering acidity. Lime zest and grapefruit in youth; aged bottles develop honey, toast, and kerosene.

Elegant, dry to off-dry Riesling with stone fruit and delicate floral notes

Mineral, age-worthy Riesling from the Heiligenstein and Zöbinger Gaisberg

Elegant Riesling with citrus and stone fruit. Between Wachau power and Kamptal precision.

Powerful Austrian Riesling on gneiss terraces above the Danube. Stone fruit, citrus, and mineral cut, with the Smaragd tier showing concentration and ageing potential.

Mostly bone-dry and full-bodied. Citrus, orchard fruit, and steely minerality, ageing beautifully into petrol and honey over a decade or more.

Rare, from the steepest slate sites

Thrives in the northern Bereiche (Ortenau, Kraichgau) with a richer, warmer profile than Mosel

Increasingly successful as the climate warms; leaner and more mineral than Mosel or Pfalz Riesling

Racy, flinty, steep-slate minerality

Featherlight Riesling on blue slate. Green apple, lime, and wet stone, around 8-10% alcohol with racing acidity. Kabinett and Spätlese reward finesse over power.

Mineral, precise, volcanic influence

Warmer, fuller-bodied Riesling than the Mosel. Mostly bone-dry, with stone fruit, mango, and citrus over loam and limestone, and 12-13% alcohol that carries weight.

Riesling with more backbone than the Mosel. Drier styles dominate, with apricot, white peach, and firm mineral grip that rewards bottle age.

Riesling at its most powerful and structured, especially the dry GGs of the Roter Hang and Wonnegau (Pettenthal, Hipping, Morstein, Brunnenhäuschen).

Württemberg's leading white. Mineral, medium-bodied from the Neckar slopes.

A quiet specialty: taut, lime-scented Riesling from bone dry to late harvest, at its best in the cooler basins.

Aromatic, off-dry to dry Riesling with lime and tropical notes

The region's calling-card white: lime, honeysuckle, and a mineral thread, from bone dry to lusciously sweet, with Pegasus Bay the benchmark.

Castell d'Encus grows it at 1,000 metres in Pallars Jussà, where late-ripening conditions yield a taut, citrus and stone-fruit style closer to Alsace than to Spain

From bone-dry to lusciously sweet, with racy acidity and stone fruit. Washington is America's largest Riesling producer.

The flagship grape: bone dry to luscious ice wine, with lime, white peach, and a slaty cut that stands beside the great German valleys.

The Finger Lakes are the American Riesling capital, producing dry, off-dry and late-harvest styles with bracing acidity and slate-like minerality.