Fritz Haag

Weingut Fritz Haag has for decades been in the top tier of quality German wine production, thanks largely to efforts of the late, legendary Wilhelm Haag, who headed up the Mosel VDP for nigh-on twenty years. Run by son Oliver Haag since 2005, he manipulates the exceptional stony grey/blue slate vineyard of the Juffer in Brauneberg, the finest part of this being a large parcel surrounding the sun dial (Sonnenuhr). Depending on the vintage, he employs a varying mixture of wooden fuders and temperature controlled stainless-steel tanks, the former helping complexity and finesse, the latter preserving freshness and intensity. These are some of the most elegant, pure and enticing wines in Germany.

2023 Vintage

Weingut Fritz Haag represents the smooth scented refinement and blue-slate playfulness of the Mosel Valley like no other. Here the 2023 Rieslings are wines of ripe texture, full flavour and juicy, floating acidities. Oliver Haag notes how the openness of the vintage never edges into creaminess and fresh acidities at every step on the quality scale makes for “really fun wines!” What’s more, October proved benevolent, “allowing us to bring in highly aromatic, golden grapes with plenty of concentration and minerality – the perfect foundation for premium wines from our finest sites. Toward the end of the harvest, we were even graced with a bit of botrytis needed for ultra-fine Goldkapsel bottles.” The Haag range runs the full spectrum of delicious, lip-smacking early drinkers up to truly magical, complex sweet wines that will age for decades. Mosel lovers will know these wines well already. For those new to the Mosel, there is, in our view, no better business card for the beauty of this epic region than Fritz Haag.