Riesling Reviews

Wine Spectator Top 100, and Wine & Spirits Magazine Riesling Ratings

Riesling is the fastest growing wine in the United States, and reviews by major media increasingly focus on Riesling producers and their wines.

The Wine Spectator’s “Top 100 Wines of 2010” include five Rieslings from four different regions (Alsace, Finger Lakes, Mosel, and Rheingau).

The December issue of Wine & Spirits Magazine rated 111 German Rieslings as exceptional (with scores of 90 or above) and 55 as Best Buys out of 486 wines blind tasted by their panel. A complete list with tasting notes is available at www.wineandspiritsmagazine.com, but here are the leading wines by region and category.

Wine Spectator Top 100 Wines of 2010—Rieslngs

  • St. Urbans-Hof 2009 Riesling Kabinett Mosel Ockfen Bockstein (92 points)
  • Trimbach 2008 Riesling Alsace Reserve (92)
  • Schloss Vollrads 2008 Riesling Kabinett Rheingau (91)
  • Robert Weil 2009 Riesling Qualitatswein Trochen Rheingau Kiedrich Turmberg (93)
  • Hermann J. Wiemer 2008 Riesling Finger Lakes Dry Reserve (91)



Wine & Spirits Ratings of German Rieslings (by region and style)

MOSEL-SAAR-RUWER

Trocken

  • 90 C. von Schubert 2009 Mosel Maximin Grünhäuser Herrenberg Alte Reben Riesling trocken
  • 90 Dr. F. Weins-Prüm 2009 Mosel Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Spätlese trocken (Best Buy)



Halbtrocken

  • 90 Christoph von Nell 2009 Mosel Kaseler Dominikanerberg Riesling Spätlese halbtrocken
  • 91 Dr. Heidemanns-Bergweiler 2009 Mosel Riesling QbA
  • 91 C. von Schubert 2009 Mosel Maximin Grünhäuser Herrenberg Riesling QbA Superior



Kabinett

  • 93 C. von Schubert 2009 Mosel Maximin Grünhäuser Herrenberg Riesling Kabinett



Spätlese

  • 95 C. von Schubert 2009 Mosel Maximin Grünhäuser Abtsberg Riesling Spätlese



Auslese

  • 95 C. von Schubert 2009 Mosel Maximin Grünhäuser Bruderberg Riesling Auslese Jungfernwein



Beerenauslese

  • 94 Schloss Sarrstein 2009 Mosel Serrig Schloss Saarsteinger Riesling Beerenauslese



Eiswein

  • 98 C. von Schubert 2009 Mosel Maximin Grünhäuser Herrenberg Riesling Eiswein



NAHE

  • 92 Hexamer 2009 Nahe Kabinett Meddersheimer Rheingrafenberg Riesling