97 Punkte | jamessuckling.com | S. Pigott “What a radical riesling and what radical freshness. The soul of the samurai sword and the brilliant shine of its blade. Very sleek and focused on the medium-bodied palate, but this is the simplistic side of the wine’s description. Extremely long finish that ends in an excitingly sharp point. Drink or hold.”

95 Punkte | robertparker.com | S. Reinhardt “The 2023 Riesling Trocken Laubenheimer Karthäuser is deep, pure and refined but impressively intense and aromatic on the beautifully balanced and distinctive nose that intermingles concentrated, ripe fruit aromas with finely weathered terroir notes from red sandstone. Accordingly generous and juicy yet always fine and crystalline on the palate, this is a mouth-filling, as if not fully dry, yet very elegant and generous Riesling that is reminiscent of certain Saar Rieslings or those from Nackenheim (Rheinhessen). In fact, the Karthäuser was bottled with “just three or four grams per liter of residual sugar,” as Martin Tesch reports on the phone. It is a complete, sensual and silky-textured Riesling with generous fruit and an exceptionally long and intense finish. This wine is made to surprise, and perhaps with 2021(?), it is on the highest level Martin (or better: his son Johannes) Tesch has reached so far. 13% stated alcohol. Stelvin screw cap. Tasted in September 2024.”

92+ Punkte | The Fine Wine Review | C. Kolm “Tropical notes in this wine with a rich texture but light on the palate. This wine is very open already but still should improve. Screw cap closure. 13.0% stated alcohol.”

17.0+ Punkte | jancisrobinson.com | J. Robinson “Full screwcapped bottle just 1,162g. From a south-west-facing amphitheatre of weathered sandstone. Maroon capsule. Brooding nose that’s still developing. Restrained aromatically but with a great weight and extract on the palate. Still a little chewy but all the ingredients are there for a very interesting future. Exciting peacock’s tail of flavours on the finish. Very definitely a food wine.“

97 Punkte | jamessuckling.com | S. Pigott
“Ein trockenes Riesling-Meisterwerk mit einer nahezu perfekten Balance aus verhaltener Reife, sehr komplexen Wildkräuteraromen und einer extrem mineralischen Säure. Erstaunliche Konzentration und Brillanz am extrem fokussierten Gaumen. Die enorme Energie im peitschenartigen Abgang lässt vermuten, dass dieser Wein ein ausgezeichnetes Alterungspotenzial hat. Am besten ab 2024.”

93+ Punkte | Fine Wine Review | C. Kolm
“The Karthäuser is richer than the foregoing with an almost chewy texture and medium-weight body. The wine is less floral and citric than the foregoing wines and more closed, but with excellent acidity. There is a spiciness that sets the wine apart from the others and iron aspects, but still needs time to open. ”

93 Punkte | robertparker.com | S. Reinhardt
“From weathered red sandstone in a warm, southwest-facing vineyard, the 2019 Riesling Karthäuser is beautifully clear, ripe, intense and pure on the complex, terroir-driven nose with its smoky, white fruit aromas and notes of milled stones. Round and piquant on the palate, this is an intense, tight, complex and persistent dry Riesling. It reveals the complex and structured terroir expression that makes the Laubenheimer Karthäuser an outstanding wine almost every year.”

95 Punkte | jamessuckling.com | S. Pigott
“Drop everything now, because this is oh so serious, but oh so exciting. At once warm and cool, mouthwatering and ripe with a very long, complex herb and mineral finale.”

92 Punkte | The Fine Wine Review | C. Kolm
“From weathered red sandstone soils, I find a bit more body and spice here than in the Krone, and plenty of grapefruit and incipient apricot aromas and flavors plus a little strawberry thrown in. As with the other 2019s, a few more years in bottle will be beneficial to allow the sugar/acid balance to come into better focus, but the wine can be drunk now.”

16.5 Punkte | jancisrobinson.com | J. Robinson
“Really quite exotic and intense on the nose already. A veritable bouquet of scented lilies. Lovely already and verging on opulent. A real charmer with notes of lime syrup, though a bone-dry finish.”