Baden

This is an interesting and quite good Riesling.  Yellow gold in color, clear and bright.  The nose is nice with apples, slight sitrus and minerality.  Medium bodied.  Good acidity.  On the palate, this is dry.  Flavors of apples, slight lemon and minerals.  A little short on the finish.  This wine has plenty of stuffing and while it is good on its own, it will be better with food.  It should work with most foods, but Spaetzle seems like a natural choice.  Drink over the next five to eight years.  

Really interesting wine.  This is Pinot Gris (Grigio) from Germany.  The name of the wine comes from a Goethe poem Prometheus.  Light golden in color, clear and bright. The nose has light white peach and minerality.  Medium bodied.  Good balance.  Nice acidity.  On the palate, minerals, peach and a slight herbal quality.  Good finish.  This is nice on its own, but better with food.  A nice wine with a Red Lentil salad.  drink over the next five years.  

From the excellent 2015 vintage.  This is a bit different from "typical" Rieslings.  Light golden in color with a touch of green hues, clear and bright.  The nose is mineral drive with minerality, slight lemons, and petrichor.  Medium bodied. On the palate, minerality with a bit of lemons.  Good acidity.  Long finish.  This is a wine that really needs food to shine.  It would work nicely with crab or chicken salad.  Drink over the next four to seven years.  

My first time trying this producer.  It will appeal to those who like very delicate, cooler climate styles of Pinot more than I.  Pale ruby in color, clear and bright.  The nose has cherries, celery and an herbal note.  Light bodied.  On the palate, the cherries come thru a bit but the celery is stronger.  A medicinal/herbal note on the finish.  Not sure where this goes from here, but if you like it young, you will probably like it over the next five to seven years.  It will work much better with food, perhaps a salad with fresh pomegranate.  

Purple/ruby in color.  The nose has black raspberries and slight bacon fat.  On the palate, cranberries and black cherries.  Slightly sour notes. Light tannins.  This is a great wine to fool people in a blind tasting.  After all, who is going to guess German Syrah?  At around $30, this is not crazy priced either.  Nothing amazing here but it is a solid, cooler profile Syrah.