Winemaker Notes
Refreshing, spicy and floral nose of grapefruit, yellow peach, and green apple. Nicely balanced and playful on the palate driven by juicy fruits. With an intense and animating feel in the zesty, herbal and spicy finish.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2019 Schiefer Riesling trocken Bruno is an homage to Bruno from Cologne, founder of the Carthusian Order whose monastery is the origin of Weingut Karthäuserhof. Mathieu Kaufmann took over the domain in January and canceled all the bottling dates just to keep the wines longer on the full lees, partly until August. The wine opens like a classic Ruwer Riesling with delicate slate and floral aromas. Playful, perfectly round and fruity on the palate, this is a light and filigreed yet quite intense Riesling Kabinett with ripe and elegant acidity and spring-like floral aromas on the aftertaste. A wine for sunny Sundays. Excellent.
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Wine Enthusiast
Intensely fruity notes of yellow cherry and tart tangerine are juxtaposed with salty, slaty minerality in this zesty, light-bodied dry Riesling. It's fresh-fruited appeal makes it an easy drinking sip but there's plenty of smoky, earthen complexities throughout. At peak now–2025.
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.
Following the Mosel River as it slithers and weaves dramatically through the Eifel Mountains in Germany’s far west, the Mosel wine region is considered by many as the source of the world’s finest and longest-lived Rieslings.
Mosel’s unique and unsurpassed combination of geography, geology and climate all combine together to make this true. Many of the Mosel’s best vineyard sites are on the steep south or southwest facing slopes, where vines receive up to ten times more sunlight, a very desirable condition in this cold climate region. Given how many twists and turns the Mosel River makes, it is not had to find a vineyard with this exposure. In fact, the Mosel’s breathtakingly steep slopes of rocky, slate-based soils straddle the riverbanks along its entire length. These rocky slate soils, as well as the river, retain and reflect heat back to the vineyards, a phenomenon that aids in the complete ripening of its grapes.
Riesling is by far the most important and prestigious grape of the Mosel, grown on approximately 60% of the region’s vineyard land—typically on the desirable sites that provide the best combination of sunlight, soil type and altitude. The best Mosel Rieslings—dry or sweet—express marked acidity, low alcohol, great purity and intensity with aromas and flavors of wet slate, citrus and stone fruit. With age, the wine’s color will become more golden and pleasing aromas of honey, dried apricot and sometimes petrol develop.
Other varieties planted in the Mosel include Müller-Thurgau, Spätburgunder (Pinot Noir) and Weissburgunder (Pinot Blanc), all performing quite well here.