Winemaker Notes
Frauenberg is a mineral-driven wine with a tremendous affinity for fine cuisine. Lobster, seafood, sashimi, and dishes that feature soy sauce make for great pairings, while finely-prepared German classics like KönigsbergerKlopse and Braten in horseradish sauce push it toward the sublime.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
Deep, concentrated and compact, this is an exceptionally chalky and salty dry riesling. For 2021 the body is also ample, the racy acidity matched with more than enough fullness and substance to carry it. Enormous drive at the very long, bold finish. From organically grown grapes. Drinkable now, but best from 2024.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2021 Frauenberg Nieder-Flörsheim Riesling GG opens with intense and concentrated, very elegant and pure yellow fruit intertwined with chalky notes. Salty and savory, with highly stimulating and ascetic purity, this is a finely grippy and stimulating Riesling that is much more limestone than Riesling. It is enormously youthful, reduced, pure and naked and ready to be aged for decades.
Riesling possesses a remarkable ability to reflect the character of wherever it is grown while still maintaining its identity. A regal variety of incredible purity and precision, this versatile grape can be just as enjoyable dry or sweet, young or old, still or sparkling and can age longer than nearly any other white variety. Somm Secret—Given how difficult it is to discern the level of sweetness in a Riesling from the label, here are some clues to find the dry ones. First, look for the world “trocken.” (“Halbtrocken” or “feinherb” mean off-dry.) Also a higher abv usually indicates a drier Riesling.
