The Sonnenuhr Spätlese, from the heart of the great Brauneberger Juffer vineyard, really takes things up a level.

The German word Auslese [pronounced OWS-lay-zuh] means “ selected from the harvest,” and is a luscious, limited-production sweet wine made from very ripe clusters that are about 50 percent…

Ripe and a hint of the exotic but not too much, still very clear and pure, yet boasting aromatic, lively flavours of nectarine, yellow plum and fresh apricot with undelrying savoury slate and…

A supremely elegant and delicate Riesling from the rocky, blue slate soil of the legendary “sundial” vineyard.

While initially quite closed on nose this is actually more plump with fruit than the Bernkastler tasted before; notes of marmalade, pink grapefruit, the noble bitterness of meadow herbs and sage.…