Footnotes

 ¹ Or the sixth if you count the frosts of 2017.

² If we grant that anything under a decade for good German isn't necessarily aging, don't worry about buying a case of a 2022 Riesling that you love, only for it to fade in your cellar in three or four years… that's simply not going to happen. The point is that most 2022s will be wines for you and your children, but possibly not your grandchildren.

³ For example, Andreas Adam harvested his supernal and physiologically-ripe Goldtröpfchen Kabinett at a few meagre degrees of oechsle above the legal minimum.’

 ⁴ In light of all this, and in search of value I visited several new German estates this year, happily finding it at a few addresses whose wines will soon be integrated into our portfolio.