Relax German Riesling White Wine

The same Relax Riesling shows up at very different prices from one store to the next. Its lowest tag in our September 2026 checks came to $11.99, which lands it toward the cheaper end of the whites we track.

Riesling is an aromatic white that holds onto sharp acidity even as it ripens, and category guides describe citrus, green apple and floral notes in younger bottles, with stone fruit in riper ones; that acidity, they add, can keep a wine lively whether it was made bone dry or sweet, so the grape name by itself will not tell you the sugar level. Shoppers, who have rated it 5 out of five across 3 ratings, do not settle that question either. The producer's own technical sheet does, detailed below.

The producer behind this bottle is Schmitt Söhne USA, based in Manteca, California, which produces this Riesling under its Relax brand from grapes grown in Germany's Mosel region, where the producer's own page says the vines ripen in slate and mineral soil. The producer's technical data lists 9.5 percent alcohol and 40 to 44 grams of residual sugar per litre, which in plain terms is a distinctly sweet wine, a figure that sits at odds with the same page's own description of the wine's fermentation style as 'slightly dry,' a conflict the source itself does not resolve. The producer's tasting note describes 'a wonderful fruity bouquet' of apple and peach with a hint of citrus, calling the finish 'refreshingly crisp' with a lingering natural acidity.

The dearest tag we saw in those same September 2026 checks was $22.99.

Our call: a low-cost pick for a shopper who wants a genuinely sweet German Riesling and doesn't mind that the producer's own fermentation notes call it 'slightly dry' when its sugar numbers say otherwise; Schmitt Söhne USA is the confirmed producer, working with Mosel-grown grapes, and this bottle's cheapest tag lands toward the cheaper end of the whites we track. Pass if you want a dry style, or a producer's account that agrees with its own numbers; read the residual-sugar figure, not the marketing line, if sweetness is what decides your purchase.

The Grocery Store Wine Desk · written Sep 16, 2026 from our research file for this wine. Numbers reflect our latest checks.