These are often heavy bottles. Most VDP members have the ones with “GG” embossed on them.
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Very good advice! One to add is that one should never buy a modern era red wine bottled to flute shaped (aka riesling) bottles. Estates take a note! If you are serious about your pinot business please order a pallet of Burgundy bottles instead of riesling bottles. Those are not that much expensive :D.
I don’t want to keep banging on too much about Enderle & Moll, we’ll documented here that I’m a fan 
but after having a 2016 Liaison week or so ago I just have to say that it reconfirmed to me that it’s their best vintage (2014 -), for me. In great shape.
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@MaciejK has some notes on the 2022’s a bit further up in the thread.
Personally I’ve haven’t jumped on the hype train yet.
The price point seems a bit optimistic. But at some point I will probably end up buying some 
Too late… 
I have 2 each of the 3 different Wongamat ‘22 spatburgunders in transit this week. Looking forward to popping one this weekend.
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Arh yes, found them now - thanks.
I am easy to persuade, so jumped in on 3 x Burgel and 3 x Rosengarten without having tried them, and they are at my off-site in CPH, so can’t get my hands on them anytime soon 
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Nice! Very curious to hear your feedback
I cannot be the only one who had those? I commented briefly here: Rosegarten +++, Bürgel +?
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There are two Spaetburgunders, one Cab Franc, one experimental claret, and a rare Chardonnay.
Mine are in the queue. But it’s quite long and disorganised.
Fwiw: tasted 2 wines by Weinwerk Gronau last WE:
Spätburgunder 2019
Cabernet Franc 2019
The latter could well have been by a very good Chinon producer, the former was recognizable as German/Austrian PN, but very convincing and a joy to drink.
CF 92 points
PN 90 points
The prices are ridiculously low:
http://weinwerk-gronau.de
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Sorry. You are correct. I have the 2 Spats and the cab franc on the way.
In the Mosel as we speak and I have noticed a lot of Spätburgunders on wine lists. I will be updating my list soon.
And there is a lot of buzz around Germany for 2022 Spätburgunders. I did not attend the VDP GG tasting in Wiesbaden for the non riesling grapes but was there for the auction preview. I did hear from a few experience tasters that there were some great wines but still a lot of the older style too ripe, too much oak, extracted wines.
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This is a really wonderful repository for information on Spätburgunder so I am going to cross link @Thomas_Keim fantastic post here for posterity.
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Apologies for another note on Wasenaus. This is at least a new wine in the lineup.
2022 Wasenhaus Kalk - I guessed this would drink well young but I also really wanted to try it. I was right about drinking well young but I also think it has a good future. Stylistically it reminded me of something in between a very good Beaujolais (Foillard or Metras) and a lot of the Burgundies coming from the Natural crowd. It has medium body, lots of spice and pinot character with lovely cherry fruit tones. Overall a really wonderful addition to the line up that I would say is just a tad more serious than the base and much less structured than the single vineyards, perfect for its spot in the lineup.
From the Vom Boden website:
The geography and village names of Baden are likely somewhat foreign, so to simplify things we can say that Kalk largely comes from one new parcel in the town of Ebringen, about ten minutes north of Wasenhaus. Yet the name, which translates to chalk, says what’s really important: the soil. I loved the wine; it has some of the character of Bellen (Bellen is also limestone soils and a bit of grapes from Bellen went in here), yet perhaps it’s more bouncy. Let’s see.
This Pinot noir is a blend from multiple plots but all on limestone soil, situated in the Markgraflerland. A major part of the vines is older than 40 years and the fruit was fermented as 40% whole cluster in an open top fermenter for 18 days. 16 months ageing in mainly used barrels.
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Thanks for the report! I’m glad I pulled the trigger on this new cuvée 
Glad I snagged 3 of these! Looking forward to trying them
Let‘s hope Herr R doesn‘t get into trouble over this … In his biweekly column he muses on the recent VDP presentation and lists wines he recommends. With one or two exceptions no surprises here, the list reads like a Who’s Who of German Spaetburgunder: Meyer Naekel, Kesseler, Krone Assmannshausen (2020), Wagner Stempel, Gutzler, Becker (2021), Huber
And apparently the trademark GG is no longer protected and from now anybody can call anything a GG.
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Are you talking about the embargo on reporting on GGs?
And as far I know you could always use GG, you just can’t use the official GG with grapes logo.