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Fine German white wines

Top quality German wines are superb, as you will already know if you have tried them, but they can be difficult to find outside of Germany. Have a look through the special selection below and call us if you would like to know more.

We also have a fine German red wine in stock - limited availability.

Wines are displayed by vintage, most recent first.
Rudesheimer Rosengarten Bacchus Spätlese 1985 (75cl) Rudesheimer Rosengarten Bacchus Spätlese 1985 (75cl)

Condition: Superb levels, labels bin-soiled, though all details legible. 


Price:   £46.49 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
Rudesheimer Rosengarten Scheurebe Spätlese 1979 (75cl) Rudesheimer Rosengarten Scheurebe Spätlese 1979 (75cl)

Condition: Very high levels, labels bin-soiled/stained, though all details legible.

Note: Spätlese (literal meaning 'late harvest') is the German term for a wine made from fully ripe grapes, the lightest of the late harvest wines. Spätlese is a riper category than Kabinett. The grapes are picked at least 7 days after normal harvest, so they are riper and have a higher must weight. Because of the weather, waiting to pick the grapes later carries a risk of the crop being ruined by rain. However, in warm years and from good sites much of the harvest will reach Spätlese level.

Scheurebe is a white wine grape variety primarily grown in Germany, Austria and some parts of the New World. Scheurebe wines are highly aromatic, and the variety is usually used for sweet wines.

Spätlese wines age well, especially those made from the Scheurebe and Riesling grape varieties. 


Price:   £36.50 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
Forster Schenpfenflug Ruländer Auslese 1975 (75cl) Forster Schenpfenflug Ruländer Auslese 1975 (75cl)

1976 Gold Medal winner and one of the 'Hallgarten Selection' wines.

Condition: Very good levels and labels.

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Price:   £45.00 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
Hochheimer Konigin 'Victoriaberg' Rheingau Riesling Spätlese 1971 (75cl) Hochheimer Konigin 'Victoriaberg' Rheingau Riesling Spätlese 1971 (75cl)

Condition: Very good levels and labels.

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Price:   £144.00 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
Franz Karl Schmitt Niersteiner Kranzberg Christwein-Eiswein-Riesling Auslese 1970 (75cl) Franz Karl Schmitt Niersteiner Kranzberg Christwein-Eiswein-Riesling Auslese 1970 (75cl)

Condition: Superb levels, labels good, though slightly bin-soiled.

Note: Eiswein (or Ice Wine) is a type of dessert wine produced from grapes that have been frozen while still on the vine. The sugars and other dissolved solids do not freeze, but the water does, allowing a more concentrated grape must to be pressed from the frozen grapes, resulting in a smaller amount of more concentrated, very sweet wine. With ice wines, the freezing happens before the fermentation, not afterwards. Unlike the grapes from which other dessert wines, such as Sauternes, Tokaji, or Trockenbeerenauslese, are made, ice wine grapes should not be affected by Botrytis or 'noble rot', at least not to any great degree. Only healthy grapes keep in good shape until the opportunity arises for an ice wine harvest, which in extreme cases can occur after the New Year, on a northern hemisphere calendar. This gives ice wine its characteristic refreshing sweetness balanced by high acidity.

Due to the labour-intense and risky production process resulting in relatively small amounts of wine, ice wines are generally expensive.

Auslese (literal meaning 'selected harvest') is the German term for a late harvest wine and is a riper category than Spätlese . The grapes are picked from selected very ripe bunches in the autumn (late November-early December), and have to be hand picked. Generally Auslese wine can be made in only the best harvest years that have been sufficiently warm. Rheingau winemaker Schloss Johannisberg is generally credited with discovering Auslese wine in 1787. 


Price:   £450.00 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
S A Prüm Wehlener Sonnenuhr Auslese 1969 (75cl) S A Prüm Wehlener Sonnenuhr Auslese 1969 (75cl)

Condition: Great levels and labels for this amazing wine.

Note: Auslese (literal meaning 'selected harvest') is the German term for a late harvest wine and is a riper category than Spätlese . The grapes are picked from selected very ripe bunches in the autumn (late November-early December), and have to be hand picked. Generally Auslese wine can be made in only the best harvest years that have been sufficiently warm. Rheingau winemaker Schloss Johannisberg is generally credited with discovering Auslese wine in 1787.

Auslesen are sometimes considered a German dessert wine, especially the wines made from botrytises bunches, though it is not as sweet as Eiswein, Beerenauslese (BA), or Trockenbeerenauslese (TBA) dessert wines. 


Price:   £232.50 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)
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