Variety: Riesling • Region: Mosel • Vineyard: Thörnicher Ritsch • Soil Type: Blue slate • Fermentation and Élevage: Natural fermentation with indigenous yeasts with 1000L fuder
Info
Producer:
Vintage:
2023
Country:
Germany
Region:
Mosel
Appellation:
Mosel
Variety:
Riesling
Color:
White
Farming Practice:
Practicing Organic
Sizes Available
| Full Bottle | DE-LOW-17-23 | 6/750ml |
Resources
Press & Reviews
James Suckling
Score
98
Date
2024-09-05
"So crystalline and so beautiful, this great dry Mosel is like a sparkling yellow diamond. Only medium-bodied, but with incredible concentration and purity. I love the wild berry and wild rose aromas that are so delicate yet so compelling. Incredibly long, tensile finish. Vegan. Drink or hold."
Vinous
Score
94
Date
2024-12-17
"The 2023 Riesling Thörnicher Ritsch Grosses Gewächs presents a smoky, subtle aspect of slate. The palate is fine, detailed and graceful, with a nakedly stony and lemony profile edged by creamy oak. The full body is beautifully bare, revealing its stone. The finish offers a long, clear, pure linear note of lemon."
REVIEWS FROM PAST VINTAGES
2022
James Suckling
Score
98
Date
2023-11-13
"Welcome to the Alpine peaks where the sunlight picks out every crevice in the rock and the wild flowers have extremely intense colors. A breathtakingly fresh wine that is dangerously energetic and mind-blowingly focused and precise. Incredible crystalline purity at the super-long finish. Still extremely young. Vegan. Drinkable now, but best from 2025."
2022
Vinous
Score
93
Date
2023-10-26
2021
James Suckling
Score
95
Date
2022-11-11
2021
Wine and Spirits
Score
94
Date
2023-12-06
"Karl-Josef Loewen, who began collecting parcels of the Thörnicher Ritsch vineyard in 1998, describes it as the second steepest vineyard in Germany. The 60-year-old vines grow in weathered grey slate and quartzite, each trained to its own post (an old viticultural method called Einzelstockerziehung). In 2021, this dry wine feels like a powerful beam of golden light, its fresh lime pith and juice seeming to continue long into the distance. Warm in the middle, this needs a stiff chill if you serve it now, or cellar time to build on its complexities."
2018
James Suckling
Score
96
Date
2019-12-19