#91 Our Season of New Releases

Take note of one: It's a stunner.

Generally, our goal is to release the new vintage of each wine in late spring or early summer.

One thing to remember when you are tasting a “new release:” these are “young” wines, and they will not taste the same today as they will after spending more time in the bottle.

Some will reach their peak within a year; others may take much longer—as much as eight-ten years at least.

This is especially true of our Rieslings. Some mature earlier. Some later. Not everyone knows that Riesling is one of the few white wines that can improve with age for 20-30 years. Dessert wines made from the Riesling grape can last for more than 100 years in the bottle. (Yes.)

Among our new releases, we have one exceptional wine that we believe will improve with age for 25 years or more.

It’s the 2023 Riesling #198 Reserve. (The others are very good, but this one is for the ages.)

Why are we are so optimistic about this wine’s ability to age?

One previous vintage of #198 Riesling which tasted very much like this when it was released. And then that same wine has evolved in a spectacular way after ten years in the bottle.

The #198 wines that have tasted the best after ten years, have tasted just like this one does now—on release. If that happened before, then we believe it can happen again.

We are pouring this young #198 Reserve now. Even people new to wine tasting can tell there is something special about it. We say to them, “Just wait. Be patient. This tastes great now. If you can put a few away for five years or more, it will reward you.”