SR | This is a dusty, orange-colored Schlossberg Riesling, which shows a clear and aromatic, unsulfured fruit, intertwined with fine tannins, grapefruit, and herbal bitters. The attack on the palate is vivacious, and the wine reveals a juicy texture but rather bitter tannins, which stand a bit apart and cause a rather drying finish. I would never have guessed this was a Schlossberg, though. Sorry. 84
AJ | Visually intriguing, and would be disarming for some: a milky pale orange. Malty, fermentative, unclassical scents, reminding me of new-make whisky. You sense it is a living object and may have many evolutions ahead, but not in a million years would I have guessed this was Riesling from Schlossberg. As a beverage in a glass, though, it is not unattractive, if a bit rough-and-ready. On the palate, by contrast, it seems raw and undeveloped, muddled and imprecise, and still packed with confused fermentative notes; a wine whose character derives from method rather than place. I'm sorry to say this, because I'm sure that great efforts have gone into it, but these are my honest impressions and I would struggle to drink this wine with pleasure. 80
AR | Is this an orange wine? Is the Pope Catholic? Well, it's a coppery-orange in color and cloudy, and smells "natural" or, in Riesling terms, unnatural, with its strong, apricot-skin and ginger-ale aromas; it's fresh to the taste, which reprises apricot and notes of ginger spice, and it combines grip, dryness, and fresh acidity in equal measure; very much a Marmite wine, this will, I suspect, delight natural-wine naturalistas, while enraging traditionalists. Either way, love it or hate it, there's little doubt that it's well-made in its style. 90