Rebenhof

14.5🯅🕓

Tasted on 8 November 2025 by Werner Elflein

16🯅🕓

Tasted on 8 November 2025 by Werner Elflein

18.5🯅🕓

Tasted on 8 November 2025 by Werner Elflein

14🯅🕓

Tasted on 8 November 2025 by Werner Elflein

15.5🯅🕓

Tasted on 8 November 2025 by Werner Elflein

17🯅🕓

Tasted on 8 November 2025 by Werner Elflein

16.5🯅🕓

Tasted on 8 November 2025 by Werner Elflein

18🯅🕓

Tasted on 8 November 2025 by Werner Elflein

15.5🯅

Tasted on 4 November 2024 by Werner Elflein

15.5🯅

Tasted on 8 October 2025 by Werner Elflein

Pale yellow. Delicate peach aroma. Slightly reductive notes with hints of flint. Spicy acidity, stimulating and activating salivation. Very good length. Exemplary dry Kabinett.

15.5🯅

Tasted on 19 October 2023 by Werner Elflein

19🯅🕓

Tasted on 8 November 2025 by Werner Elflein

18🯅🕓

Tasted on 8 November 2025 by Werner Elflein

17🯅🕓

Tasted on 8 November 2025 by Werner Elflein

18.5🯅🕓

Tasted on 8 November 2025 by Werner Elflein

18🯅🕓

Tasted on 8 November 2025 by Werner Elflein

18.5🯅🕓

Tasted on 8 November 2025 by Werner Elflein

15.5🯅⚖

Tasted on 8 December 2016 by Werner Elflein

15🯅🯅🯅⚖

Tasted on 24 September 2016 by our jury

16🯅⚖

Tasted on 24 September 2016 by Werner Elflein

15.5🯅

Tasted on 23 February 2022 by Werner Elflein

17🯅

Tasted on 9 December 2025 by Werner Elflein

I have enjoyed this wine on several occasions over the past ten years. The first time was as a barrel sample at the winery. Even at our first encounter, it tasted extremely promising. Shortly after bottling, however, it fell into a slump, as expected, so I decided not to touch it for a few years. Since then, a long time has passed – at least for the lifespan of a dry Riesling. Today, it shows itself to be very well matured, with a full golden yellow colour with an amber touch and the typical aroma profile of the Erden Treppchen. Peach and apricot in abundance play around the nostrils. Both fruits are even more prominent on the palate, especially in combination with the juiciness that is characteristic of Johannes Schmitz' Rieslings. The acidity acts as a ripe, structure-forming element amid a richness that is not defined by alcohol, but rather subordinated to elegance and finesse. The mineral fingerprint of the site is omnipresent, with a delicate, age-appropriate, slightly tart phenolic character that pleasantly and distinctively references the seniority of the dry Spätlese. A hint of sweetness lingers. The wine leaves the tongue in a finish that lasts for minutes, with a seemingly endless echo. A magnificent achievement! But let us return to the bouquet. With a little air, it becomes even more complex, now offering notes of a roasted coffee bean, which make a little room for itselve at the expense of peach and apricot. After a good hour, the taste coordinates also change slightly on the palate. Perhaps the Erden Treppchen seems more serious, but in any case it is clearly more complex, with a more deeply interwoven multi-layeredness.

15.5🯅🯅🯅⚖

Tasted on 21 February 2017 by our jury

16🯅⚖

Tasted on 17 September 2016 by Werner Elflein

16.5🯅⚖

Tasted on 22 September 2016 by Werner Elflein

15.5🯅🯅🯅⚖

Tasted on 27 August 2016 by our jury

17🯅

Tasted on 27 August 2016 by Werner Elflein

16🯅

Tasted on 19 October 2025 by Werner Elflein

Golden yellow. Restrained aroma of nectarine and peach. Very mineral on the palate, quite lean, structured acidity, slight bitterness, excellent length. Ten years ago, when I first tasted it at the winery, I had slight doubts given the difficult vintage, but the wine has now swept those doubts aside. A remarkable development that once again shows how important the factor of maturity can be.

17🯅

Tasted on 8 October 2022 by Werner Elflein

15.5🯅

Tasted on 29 June 2017 by Werner Elflein

15.5🯅

Tasted on 29 June 2017 by Julia Elflein

14🯅

Tasted on 2 May 2017 by Werner Elflein

14.5🯅

Tasted on 2 May 2017 by Julia Elflein

18🯅

Tasted on 18 January 2021 by Werner Elflein

Greenish golden yellow. Slightly salty bouquet of fully ripe stone fruits, characterised by botrytis notes, in the typical expression of apricot, peach and nectarine from the Ürziger Würzgarten. At 9 % vol alcohol, not overly sweet, making it an Auslese in the classic sense, well suited as a food companion. Good balance. Ripe, integrated acidity. Excellent length.

17🯅

Tasted on 4 February 2023 by Werner Elflein

Golden yellow with amber hints. Already in the nose with opulent fruit density and concentrated aromas of nectarine and apricot, partly reminiscent of jam. Delicate ripening tone. Juicy and powerful Spätlese in the traditional style, not primarily aiming for sweetness. Well-integrated, harmonious acidity. Excellent length and persistence. A good accompaniment to foie gras.

20🯅🕓

Tasted on 8 November 2025 by Werner Elflein

16.5🯅

Tasted on 2 May 2018 by Werner Elflein

16🯅

Tasted on 1 August 2017 by Werner Elflein

16.5🯅

Tasted on 1 August 2017 by Julia Elflein

15🯅

Tasted on 18 May 2021 by Werner Elflein

16.5🯅

Tasted on 31 July 2017 by Werner Elflein

17🯅

Tasted on 31 July 2017 by Julia Elflein

18🯅

Tasted on 9 April 2020 by Werner Elflein

19🯅

Tasted on 4 November 2025 by Werner Elflein

2011 was a very hot, dry year. Nevertheless, yields exploded, and the measures taken to reduce yields were literally wasted in many places. It was not uncommon for the legal maximum yield limits to be exceeded. With the benefit of hindsight, the Riesling vintage appears divided into two camps. On the one hand, there are wines with little fruit, a perfumed bouquet and downright pitiful acidity levels. On the other hand, especially in the noble sweet sector, there are wines bursting with juice and boasting lush tropical fruit aromas. However, very few of them are truly great. Johannes Schmitz's Auslese Fass Nr. 24 must therefore appear in the context of the vintage as if it comes from another planet (where, purely by chance, there is Riesling and a second Ürzig Würzgarten). A rich amber orange sparkles in the glass. As expected, the nose offers the scent of botrytis, here in its perfect form, reminiscent of dried fruit. Expressive and expansive, with the concentrated aroma of a sun-ripened orange. Without drifting into clumsy opulence, the Auslese is present right to the back of the mouth. At the same time, despite its inner density, it glides surprisingly easily over the tongue. Sweetness is an important flavour carrier here, but it is balanced by a ripe, well-integrated acidity with a slightly restrained handbrake. This results in a great balance between all parameters. Outstanding length and sustainability.

19🯅

Tasted on 4 November 2025 by Julia Elflein

15🯅🯅🯅⚖

Tasted on 9 July 2011 by our jury

16🯅🯅🯅⚖

Tasted on 9 July 2011 by our jury

17🯅

Tasted on 24 October 2020 by Werner Elflein

Bright golden yellow with bright reflections. Already in the nose with the typical fruit profile of the Würzgarten, consisting of peach and nectarine aromas. Very concentrated on the tongue and surprisingly powerful with only 11.5 % vol alcohol. Great density and juiciness. Vital acidity, excellent balance, not too sweet. Excellent length and persistence.

17🯅

Tasted on 9 April 2020 by Werner Elflein

17🯅

Tasted on 30 October 2015 by Werner Elflein

Full, bright golden yellow. Fulminant fragrance of dried yellow fruits like peach, apricot and orange. Fine hints of herbal sugar. Viscous, juicy elixir, for all its density not ponderous, but gliding playfully over the tongue, flanked by a ripe, piquant and well-integrated acidity. Actually deserves to be declared as an Auslese. Excellent length.

16🯅🯅🯅⚖

Tasted on 9 July 2011 by our jury

17🯅

Tasted on 16 October 2016 by Werner Elflein

Golden to amber yellow. Expansive, complex aroma of ripe, partly candied and dried yellow fruits with hints of hazelnut. Juicy fullness of fruit, the hazelnut aromas are more prominent on the tongue than on the nose. Fine acid structure corresponding to the hot vintage. Reasonable, moderate sweetness. Despite its concentration, in no way saturating, but animating with every sip. Excellent length. In the style of an Auslese. Exceeded the high expectations.

16🯅

Tasted on 19 January 2011 by Werner Elflein

Golden to amber yellow. Enchanting, quite opulent scent of hazelnut, caramel and ripe yellow fruits. More powerful in stature than most other 2005s of the region and consequently already less marked by sweetness. Juicy Riesling fruit, very moderate acidity typical of the vintage. Fine spicy hints reminiscent of green herbs. Excellent length. In the style of a Auslese.