Andrew Jefford | Pale, bright mid-gold. Fresh, pure, and invigorating, with a kind of lavender finesse to the apple, lemon, and white-nectarine fruit. Downy vanilla, too. Lovely aromas. Exciting, primary, and alive: zesty and dry flavors packed with spattered apple, squeezed lemon, and (metaphorically speaking) broken stone. Super-zesty, zippy, palate-interrogating Riesling; shockingly good. Is the lemon almost overdone? Maybe; but I’d love to sit down with it over an hour or two and find out. | 93

Stephan Reinhardt | Fascinating, clear colors and flavors open this pure and flinty Riesling, which shines as bright as the holy grail and smells like wet stones and crushed slate. The fruit is clear, precise, intense, and intertwined with flinty notes. On the palate, this is a full-bodied, complex, tense, very mineral but also juicy and intense dry Riesling, with remarkable harmony and this salty, sharp purity on the finish that reminds me of quartzite and a deep, cold terroir. Very long. 2021–45. | 94

Anthony Rose | Light lemon in color, this is fresh, floral, and piquant, with a slight smokiness in its fragrance, a light spritz on the tongue, and a salty streak underlying an appealing citrusy freshness of fruit, bringing a mouthwatering dry tang to the fruit, which is crisp, dry, and elegantly balanced. | 94