2021 Burklin-Wolf Wachenheimer Bohlig P.C Riesling, Wachenheim

Generous and juicy, with an excellent harmony of full fruit, ripe acidity and fine tannins, this is a serious dry riesling for this challenging vintage in the Pfalz. Fragrant white fruit aromas. Everything fits together so beautifully. From bio-dynamically grown grapes. Vegan. Drink or hold.

94 points Stuart Pigott JamesSuckling.com August 2022

The Bohlig vineyard totals 4.94 ha or which Bürklin-Wolf's parcel amounts to 3.11 hectares of vines planted 1971 in the village of Wachenheim. Bohlig sits high on the slope beside Altenburg and borders the village of Wachenheim with Rechbachel directly below. The south-east facing slope favors optimal sun exposure, which warms the red and yellow sandstone boulders. The Wachenheimer BÖHLIG is particularly characterized by the high lime content in the soil (similar to Altenburg), as this soil formation is very rare on the Palatinate Mittelhaardt.

The Bürklin-Wolf estate is based in the Mittelhaardt, the quality core of Germany’s world-renowned Pfalz, around the towns of Wachenheim, Forst, Deidesheim and Ruppertsberg. Here with 85ha under vine they have the largest family owned wine estate in all of Germany originating in 1597, with a treasure-trove of superb vineyards, at the centre of which lies the great Kirchenstück. Here in the tiny village of Forst, Kirchenstück and its neighbours Jesuitengarten, Ungeheuer and Pechstein, have for centuries been recognised as producing not only some of the world’s greatest dry Rieslings, but simply some of the world’s greatest wines. In the nineteenth century, prices for these wines exceeded the prices paid for 1st Growth Bordeaux and Grand Cru Burgundy.

“In this discipline [dry Riesling], this estate has essentially no rival in all of Germany. In fact, given their sheer vineyard potential—they’re capable of producing seven grand crus and an equal number of premier crus in any given vintage—this may well be the best and most consistent producer of great dry Riesling in the world.”

Joel B. Payne Vinous January 2013