Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Germany’s Best Dry Rieslings – Feinschmecker Riesling Cup 2016

Picture: Philipp Wittmann, Weingut Wittmann, and Wilhelm Weil, Weingut Weil, #5 and #9 at the Der Feinschmeckre Riesling Cup

The results of the Feinschmecker Riesling Cup 2016/17 - Germany’s Best Dry Rieslings - were announced.

Picture: Feinschmecker Riesling CupPicture: Feinschmecker Riesling Cup

For previous years, see on schiller-wine:

Germany’s Best Dry Rieslings - Feinschmecker Riesling Cup 2015: Dönnhoff Rules! The Nahe Rules!
Germany’s Best Dry Rieslings – Feinschmecker Riesling Cup 2014
Germany’s Best Dry Rieslings – Feinschmecker Riesling Cup 2013
Germany’s Best Dry Rieslings – Feinschmecker Riesling Cup 2012
Germany’s Best Dry Rieslings - Feinschmecker Riesling Cup 2011
The 11 Top German Dry Rieslings – Feinschmecker German Riesling Cup 2010 (Vintage 2009)
The 13 Top German Dry Rieslings – Feinschmecker German Riesling Cup 2009 (Vintage 2008)
Riesling Cup 2009 - Germany's Top Dry 2007 Rieslings

Dry Riesling in Germany

There are approximately 47,000 hectares planted with Riesling worldwide. Germany—with 22,500 hectares—accounts for about half of the total. From a global perspective, Riesling is a niche grape variety, accounting for less than 1% of world wine production. From a global perspective, it is the fruity-sweet style (with the fermentation stopped so that the wine remains sweet and the level of alcohol low) and the rare noble-sweet style (lusciously sweet wines due to noble rot or frost in the vineyard) that are receiving the attention of the connoisseurs of premium wines. Dry Riesling has played a minor role in the world of wine, but this is changing. The Rieslings from Alsace and Austria, both considerably smaller producers of Riesling than Germany (Alsace produces approximately 15% and Austria approximately 7% of what Germany produces), have always been in the dry category (although the Rieslings from Alsace have shown a trend toward an increasing level of remaining sweetness in the wine over the past decades), and, importantly, Germany, the dominating Riesling force in the world, has undergone a major trans- formation in the past 40 years: The fruity-sweet Rieslings have been crowded out from the wine lists in Germany, while the “dry wave”—“Trockenwelle”—has swept the country. When you go to a wine bar, wine store, or restaurant in say Frankfurt, Berlin, or Munich, it is very difficult to find a fruity-sweet Riesling. The wine lists are dominated by dry Riesling.

The Top 16 Wines

1 2015 Piesporter Goldtröpfchen Riesling trocken Weingut Hain Mosel Euro 13
2 2015 Lieser Niederberg-Helden Riesling Grosses Gewächs Weingut Schloss Lieser Mosel Euro 27

Picture: Tasting at Weingut Schloss Lieser in Lieser with Owner/ Winemaker Thomas Haag. See: Tasting at Weingut Schloss Lieser in Lieser with Owner/ Winemaker Thomas Haag – Germany-North Tour by ombiasy WineTours 2016

Picture: Thomas Haag, Weingut Schloss Lieser, and Christian Schiller in Mainz

3 2015 Ebernberger Schlossberg Riesling trocken Weingut Hahnmühle Nahe Euro 25
4 2015 Trittenheimer Apotheke Riesling trocken Weingut Ansgar Clüsserath Mosel Euro 23
5 2015 Riesling vom Kalkstein trocken Weingut Wittmann Rheinhessen Euro 15

Picture: Cellar Tour and Wine Tasting with Philipp Wittmann and Eva Clüsserath-Wittmann at Weingut Wittmann in Westhofen – Germany-South Tour by ombiasy WineTours (2014)

6 2015 Trittenheimer Apotheke Riesling trocken Weingut Clüsserath-Weiler Mosel Euro 14
7 2015 Zeltinger Schlossberg Riesling trocken Weingut Selbach-Oster Mosel Euro 17

Picture: Wine Tasting at Weingut Selbach-Oster in Zeltingen, Mosel, with Johannes Selbach, See: Cellar Tour and Wine Tasting at Weingut Selbach-Oster in Zeltingen, Mosel, with Johannes Selbach – Germany-North Tour by ombiasy WineTours (2014)

8 2015 Halenberg Riesling Grosses Gewächs Weingut Emrich-Schönleber Nahe Euro 28

Picture: Christian Schiller and Werner Schönleber, Weingut Emrich-Schönleber at the 2013 Riesling Gala at Kloster Eberbach, Germany. See: Riesling Gala 2015 at Kloster Eberbach in the Rheingau, Germany

9 2015 Kiedrich Turmberg Riesling trocken Weingut Robert Weil Rheingau Euro 26

Pictures: Christian and Annette Schiller with Wilhelm Weil at Weingut Robert Weil in Kiedrich

Pictures: Kiedrich: Visit of the Basilica of Saint Valentine and of Weingut Robert Weil - Germany-North Wine Tour by ombiasy (2014)

10 2015 Weinholsheimer Kehr Riesling Spätlese trocken *** Weingut Manz Rheinhessen Euro 19
11 2015 Dettelbacher Berg-Rondell Riesling trocken Weingut Glaser-Himmelstoss Franken Euro 15
12 2015 Riesling trocken Alte Reben Weingut Toni Jost-Hahnenhof Mittelrhein Euro 12

Picture: Peter and Cecilia Jost, Weingut Toni Jost, Bacharach, Mittelrhein. See: Wine Tasting at Weingut Toni Jost in Bacharach, Mittelrhein, with Cecilia Jost – Germany-North Tour by ombiasy WineTours, Germany

13 2015 Riesling von der Fels trocken Weingut Klaus Peter Keller Rheinhessen Euro 19

Picture: Annette Schiller, Julia and Klaus Peter Keller at the 2015 Rieslingfeier in New York, see: A German Riesling Feast in New York City: Rieslingfeier 2015, USA

14 2015 Lorcher Krone Riesling trocken Alte Reben Weingut Graf Kanitz Rheingau Euro 15
15 2015 Dorsheimer Eierfels Riesling trocken Schlossgut Diel Nahe Euro 19

Pictures: Christian Schiller and Caroline Diel with Anouk at Schlossgut Diel. See also: Tasting with Sylvain Taurisson Diel at Schlossgut Diel, Nahe – Germany-North Tour by ombiasy WineTours (2014)

16 2015 Riesling von den Terassen trocken Weingut Knebel Mosel Euro 12

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Germany-East Tour 2016 by ombiasy WineTours: Wine, Art, Culture and History

Germany-North Tour 2016 by ombiasy WineTours: Quintessential German Riesling and the Northernmost Pinot Noir

Germany-South Tour by ombiasy WineTours (2015)

Tasting at Weingut Schloss Lieser in Lieser with Owner/ Winemaker Thomas Haag – Germany-North Tour by ombiasy WineTours 2016

Cellar Tour and Wine Tasting with Philipp Wittmann and Eva Clüsserath-Wittmann at Weingut Wittmann in Westhofen – Germany-South Tour by ombiasy WineTours (2014)

Cellar Tour and Wine Tasting at Weingut Selbach-Oster in Zeltingen, Mosel, with Johannes Selbach – Germany-North Tour by ombiasy WineTours (2014)

Riesling Gala 2015 at Kloster Eberbach in the Rheingau, Germany

Kiedrich: Visit of the Basilica of Saint Valentine and of Weingut Robert Weil - Germany-North Wine Tour by ombiasy (2014)

Peter and Cecilia Jost, Weingut Toni Jost, Bacharach, Mittelrhein. See: Wine Tasting at Weingut Toni Jost in Bacharach, Mittelrhein, with Cecilia Jost – Germany-North Tour by ombiasy WineTours, Germany

Tasting with Sylvain Taurisson Diel at Schlossgut Diel, Nahe – Germany-North Tour by ombiasy WineTours (2014)  

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