One of Eva Fricke's most approachable wines, this organic Riesling is just a simply beautiful drink. It smells of citrus blossoms, of the first rays of spring after a long cold winter, with the first whiff of peach and just a little herbs all over a light but not insubstantial palate that feels at once easy going and juicy, but also plenty crisp and taut enough to remind you of its dead serious winemaking intentions.

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.