The results of the Feinschmecker Riesling Cup 2016/17 - Germany’s Best Dry Rieslings - were announced.
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
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
6 2015 Trittenheimer Apotheke Riesling trocken Weingut Clüsserath-Weiler Mosel Euro 14
7 2015 Zeltinger Schlossberg Riesling trocken Weingut Selbach-Oster Mosel Euro 17
8 2015 Halenberg Riesling Grosses Gewächs Weingut Emrich-Schönleber Nahe Euro 28
9 2015 Kiedrich Turmberg Riesling trocken Weingut Robert Weil Rheingau Euro 26
10 2015 Weinholsheimer Kehr Riesling Spätlese trocken *** Weingut Manz Rheinhessen Euro 19
11 2015 Dettelbacher Berg-Rondell Riesling trocken Weingut Glaser-Himmelstoss Mosel Euro 15
12 2015 Riesling trocken Alte Reben Weingut Toni Jost-Hahnenhof Mittelrhein Euro 12
13 2015 Riesling von der Fels trocken Weingut Klaus Peter Keller Rheinhessen Euro 19
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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Tasting with Sylvain Taurisson Diel at Schlossgut Diel, Nahe– Germany-North Tour by ombiasy WineTours (2014)