When you drink this wine, spare a thought for the poor sods who picked the grapes, because every grape had to be harvested by hand from incredibly steep slopes along the Mosel Valley (even Evel Knievel wouldn’t drive a tractor down there!).

Daniel Fries is a really exciting young winemaker (first vintage 2019) and we are thrilled to have discovered him so early in his upward trajectory. We have selected his estate Riesling Trocken 2023 for you to try, which is his ‘entry level’ wine, before you climb the quality ladder towards his Erste Lage sites, but it really rises above its station at £21.50 per bottle. It’s completely dry (Trocken) and we put it through its paces with prawn tempura roll, salmon nigiri aburi, spider roll and yellowtail sashimi. It was the perfect accompaniment, with just enough tender fruit to keep the raw wasabi at arm’s length, while sufficiently crisp and refreshing to elevate the sweetness of the crab meat, the prawns and the seared salmon. Fries with sushi? Yes please!

The aromas are focused around tangy lime and juicy white nectarine, so the wine has precision and succulence in equal measure. The vines grow on pure slate soils and even if science can’t (as yet) explain how minerals in the soil can manifest themselves as flavours in the wine, there is a device that can detect it at very small parts-per-million called the human tastebud and there is something unmistakably ‘slatey’ about this wine. 12% alc. Drink now-2029.