2010 Weingut Josef Leitz Geisenheimer Rothenberg Riesling Eiswein

• By Joel B. Payne
  January/February 2012, IWC Issue #160, (See more on Vinous...)

  (Josef Leitz Geisenheimer Rothenberg Riesling Eiswein (half bottle)) Login and sign up and see review text.

View From the Cellar

• By John Gilman
  Mar/Apr 2011, Issue #32, The 2010 German Vintage: High Sugars, Higher Acidity and the Lowest Yields in Recent Memory

  (Geisenheimer Rothenberg Riesling Eiswein- Weingut Josef Leitz) Login and sign up and see review text.

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• By Richard Jennings
  6/27/2011, (See more on RJonWine.com...) 92 points

  (Weingut Josef Leitz Geisenheimer Rothenberg Riesling Eiswein) Light yellow color; rich, intense, peach, baked peach, floral nose; delicious, rich, ripe peach, mineral palate; long finish 92+ points

Terry Theise Estate Selections

• By Terry Theise
  2011 German Catalog, 3/1/2011, (See more on Terry Theise Estate Selections...)

  (Leitz Geisenheimer Rothenberg Riesling Eiswein) ($100.00) Picked the day after Christmas. This is among the greatest Eisweins I’ve ever tasted. A parfait of wild strawberries and peonies. Evokes memories that aren’t even yours. Something singular and sublime here, as ethereal as meringue, as solid as a loving dream. I’m quite overcome, as you see. The problem is, you try to use language equal to the power of what you’re feeling, but when you do, you suck power out of that language because there’s too many high-chi words crashing into one another. What I’m feeling tasting this little miracle are the presences of the sublime, and of divinity. But once you say “sublime” and “divine” you have named the thing but not conveyed the numinous emotion. For that you need poetry or music. Maybe the thing about Eiswein is how poignant it is to express this ecstatic truth of the world by dint of something frozen. As if, in order to learn its truth, you have to stop its heart. Great botrytis wines are more wolfish, more salivary; there is savor in them. Great Eiswein are like an ether of existence in which a hidden sublimity is revealed. Great Eiswein is also in some way absolutely still. It’s like the curve in the road you can’t see beyond, or like the instant between inhale and exhale, calm and yet suspenseful