Three magical, obscenely good value Rieslings

2017 Wiltinger, Riesling Trocken, Reichsgraf von Kesselstatt, Saar, Germany£12.55 from the Wine Society, 01438-741177, TheWineSociety.com

This week's column is about magic. Not the David Copperfield or Penn & Teller style of magic, but real magic. Not sleight of hand, not camera tricks, not misdirection or illusionism real magic you can touch and indeed taste. The 2017 Rieslings from von Kesselstatt are true vinous magic and I have no less than three for you this week, and they are all obscenely good value for money.

First, my featured wine, the beautiful Wiltinger Trocken.This is guaranteed to cast aspell on your senses it is so enchanting. There is a crystalline purity tothis Riesling which liftsthe mood, pierces the senses and caressesyour taste buds all atthe same time.When I first tastedthis wine, I sighed.

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I actually emitted a sigh not a huff, a groan or an aah, but a genuine fair-maiden-style sigh. It is effortlessly graceful and wholly magical, with flawless aromatics and a luminous palate. It is guaranteed to amaze you with its charms.

If you would like to up the drama, then the Wine Society (see information above) also stocks 2017 Kaesler Nies'chen Riesling Kabinett (£14.95), which brings daredevil poise to an already epic performance. The 2017 Kaesler Nies'chen Riesling Sptlese (£19.50), also from the Wine Society, adds a degree of juiciness and flair to these attributes and may possibly bring a tear to the eye. Abracadabra indeed.

Matthew Jukes has been the MoneyWeek wine correspondent since 2006.

He has worked in the UK wine business for well over three decades and during this time has written 14 wine books. His four highly-acclaimed, annual wine reports – the Burgundy En Primeur Report, the Bordeaux En Primeur Report, the Piemonte Report and the 100 Best Australian Wines – are published on his website.

Matthew is a winner of the International Wine and Spirit Competition's Communicator of the Year Trophy. His thoughts, recommendations and tastings notes are followed very closely by the wine world at large.