Sure, Eva Fricke is known for profoundly mineral wines, but this Riesling is actually just a deliciously juicy wine. Medium-bodied and fruity, you can taste a whole lot of stonefruit and citrus in the mix before the finish starts to close in on you with its orangey grip and power. What a rainbow of flavour, wavering between ripe roundness and then sabre-like freshness and minerality. What a wine!

Eva Fricke is part of the dynamic new generation of producers in the super-steep hillsides of Germany's western Rheingau. A longtime winemaker at Leityz, she struck out on her own in 2011 to make wines from vineyards perched on slopes often considered too rocky and steep to be worthwhile. Eva then made her reputation crafting wonderfully crystalline Riesling that delivers wines with a sense of beauty and purity. Within the precipitously terraced vineyards, Eva has also embraced biodynamic preparations and continues to pickup new parcels of neglected old vines to work them anew. Then, in the winery, she believes in the old, patient ways, with wild fermentations, long, slow pressing and extended maturation on lees. It all translates in the glass to truly sublime German wines of next-level beauty and intensity.