Theo Minges

Pfalz-meets-Mosel in these high-flying minerally-leesy wines. Extraordinary value across the board The best, best, best quality large-format wines I have ever tasted ANYWHERE. Superb Rieslings in a vintage like 2001 goes without saying! Intriguingly they’re not like typical Pfalz wines, but rather like some Pfalz-Mosel hybrid. They tend to run compact and chalky, with crunchy vivid flavors. The Muscats are laugh-out-load wonderful. And there are no better values anywhere in this offering!

•Vineyard area: 15 hectares
•Annual production: 8,400 cases
•Top sites: Gleisweiler Hölle, Flemlinger Vogelsprung
•Soil types: Limestone, heavy chalky loam, loess and loam
•Grape varieties: 30% Riesling, 15% Spätburgunder, 10% each of Grauer Burgunder and Dornfelder, 5% each of Weissburgunder, Chardonnay and St. Laurent, 20% other varieties