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Continuing with Hattenheim, the quality of 2021 continues, and Prinz has a super 2022 Nussbrunnen. (Continue reading here.)
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Continuing with Hattenheim, the quality of 2021 continues, and Prinz has a super 2022 Nussbrunnen. (Continue reading here.)
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If you want to see evidence that great Rheingau vineyards that had been languishing are flourishing in new hands, check out the Marcobrunn and Hohenrain GG’s below that now are coming from Künstler and von Oetinger (Jung and Kloster Eberbach have long been making very good wines from those vineyards). (Continue reading here.)
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Alas, less promising wines here than with the Höllenbergs. (Continue reading here.)
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Wines from this vineyard have a track record of long ageability. (Continue reading here.)
More disappointments from the western Rheingau, with Prinz and Künstler as exceptions. (Continue reading here.)
In addition to the wines below, I tasted 2020 Hohenrain and 2020 Siegelsberg from Jacob Jung, but the wines were not representative of the quality I know from long experience to expect from Jung, and so I suspect that they were not representative and I am not reviewing them here. (Continue reading here.)
Again, a mixture of 2020 and 2021 vintages. (Continue reading here.)
As with the Ahr, some producers have shown a disappointing reversion to past years when oak was more heavily (and clumsily) used. (Continue reading here.)