Wagner-Stempel EMT Auction Riesling Trocken, Rheinhessen, Germany 2023

“EMT” Auction Riesling Trocken 2023 is one of the domaine’s rarest and most prestigious wines, with only 360 bottles produced for the annual VDP auction. “EMT” comes from an old parcel in the heart of the Heerkretz vineyard in Siefersheim, sourced from vines planted more than 50 years ago. The wine is 100% Riesling, fermented and matured in stainless steel to preserve its remarkable purity and precision. The 2023 is intensely concentrated yet remarkably graceful, showing lemon, white peach, jasmine, flint, wet stone, herbs, and a pronounced saline minerality. For a collector, this is a true unicorn German Riesling—essentially the finest core selection of Heerkretz, made in tiny quantities and designed for decades of aging. The wine is only released in great vintages and sold only during the VDP auction.

James Suckling 99 points