The Wine Advocate routinely causes a frenzy that has been likened to “throwing meat into a piranha tank”. It does not usually trouble the inhabitants of the Rheingau in Germany for the simple reason that, until last year, none of its wines had ever made it into the 100-club.It was a big moment for the region as well as for Eva Fricke and the eponymous domaine she built from scratch when an Eva Fricke Lorcher Krone Riesling Trockenbeerenauslese 2019 secured 100 glittering points last August.
Now there’s another first for the doctors’ daughter from northern Germany who, as a teenager, made beer at home, planned to become a brewer and was once gently told by Michael Broadbent that she might have to lose her purple hair if she wanted to get on.
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