Germany wines in the Flickinger Fine Wines inventory http://www.flickingerwines.com/wineregions/german.asp http://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/WeingutWilhelmBrundlmayer.aspWS 90 (5/1999): Wow. An intense dessert wine with aromas and flavors of spearmint, fresh bay leaf, caramel and apricot. Very sweet, with searing acidity that keeps the wine fresh, and possibly ageless. Needs a dessert to match its acidity. Drink now through 2010.http://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/DrBurklin-Wolf.aspWS 89 (3/2004): Everything is in the right place in this delicate white, yet the flavors are reticent today. It turns short on the finish, too. A reliable grower, so give this some time in the bottle. Best from 2005 through 2012. 450 cases made.http://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/JJChristoffel.aspWS 89 (3/2005): Almond and a hint of petrol in the aromas give way to passion fruit, lime and tangerine flavors in this intense, vibrant Riesling. It's just a tad coarse on the finish. Drink now through 2018.IWC 1-Star (2/2005): Aromas of tangerine, sassafras and toasted nuts. Sizzlingly bright and spicy on the palate, with juicy citricity but also a hint of creaminess. This comes from a small, ungrafted section near Pralat that was not disturbed during the general replanting of Treppchen. Finishes bright and long.http://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/JJChristoffelErben.aspWA 92 (2/2007): Clusserath’s 2005 Trittenheimer Apotheke Riesling Auslese was a byproduct (and what a bonus!) of scrupulous pre-harvest for her Apotheke trocken. It displays a colorful aromatic melange of mirabelle, litchi, apple jelly, wood smoke, and oriental spices. On the palate, this has density, sap, almost a pulpy feel to it, and the lively acidity and phenolic cut to successfully push back against a lot of residual sugar (less successfully accomplished in this year’s Apotheke Spatlese). Fresh apple and plum drenched in honey inform a rich yet refined finish, managing also to display subtle spiciness and transparency to what, for lack of a better word, I can only term “minerality.” This gorgeous Auslese opens up considerably in the glass and has, I suspect, an excellent 20 or more year potential in the cellar.http://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/AnsgarClusserath.aspWA 100 (2/2004): The 2002 Riesling Eiswein Oberhauser Brucke is a grand slam home run for Donnhoff. It is so intense, so powerful, and so complex as to instill fear in the taster. Its apricot and peach cobbler aromas lead to a jellied core of cassis, raspberries, syrupy slate, and oodles of spices. It is simply amazing that a wine of this richness, ripeness, and depth can retain perfect definition, grip, and refinement. What is truly terrifying, however, is that Donnhoff produced a three-star Eiswein from the same vineyard in 2002, one he presumably considers better than this sublime nectar. Part of me is grateful that I was unable to taste it, however, as I have only 100 points with which to work. Bravo! Projected maturity: 2015-2040+. For the second year in a row, Helmut Donnhoff has left me shaking my head in wonder. Having tasted the greatest wines in the world, year in and year out, as a wine merchant and as a critic, did not prepare me for the awe-inspiring experience of tasting through Donnhoff’s 2001s and 2002s. They are magical, emotional, breath-taking. My words cannot do them justice.http://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/WeingutHermannDonnhoff.asphttp://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/Grans-Fassian.asphttp://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/Grans-Fassian.aspWS 90 (12/2001): Thick and dense, with apricot and citrus, and hints of honey. This dessert Riesling remains vibrant, ending with a refreshing finish. Drink now through 2005. 10 cases made.http://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/WeingutJohannishof.aspWA 91 (10/2008): The more obviously botrytized 2006 Bacharacher Hahn Riesling Auslese Gold Capsule evinces an ethereal corsage of gardenia with candied grapefruit and honey. A hint of caramel creeps into the opulent, creamy, malted, honeyed palate and like its "regular Auslese" counterpart, this displays seamlessness and the purity which Peter Jost says was his primary aim this vintage. But it misses quite the refreshment, elegance, and hint of minerality displayed by that ostensibly lesser wine. Set it aside for 8-10 years and then plan on an equal "window" of prime enjoyment. IWC 91 (2/2008): Golden yellow. Sumptuous aromas of ripe apricot, smoke and spicy botrytis. Sweet, sumptuous fruit pours smoothly over the palate. Weightier but hardly more impressive than the normal auslese. This will need time.http://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/ToniJost.aspWA 88 (12/2004): Sweet pears and linden make up the aromatic profile of the 2003 Riesling Kabinett Eitelsbacher Karthauserhofberg. Bold, hugely expressive, and suave, this medium-bodied wine slathers the palate with poached pear flavors. Its generous nose and personality, combined with its lush texture, would have earned this wine a higher score if it had not been somewhat short in the finish. Drink it over the next 6 years. WS 88 (6/2005): A delicate 2003 kabinett, exhibiting peach, citrus and orange notes on a moderately firm structure. Clamps up on the finish, detracting a little from its overall appeal. Drink now through 2012. 100 cases imported.http://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/Karthauserhof.asphttp://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/WeingutKeller.asphttp://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/WeingutKeller.aspWA 91 (10/2009): The 2007 Spatburgunder trocken S combines freshness of red fruits with chocolate, fennel and leather. Like his other reds, it displays the sort of mysteriously musky, phernomic, and floral perfume as well as the silkiness of texture that make Pinot so alluring, and which I too seldom find in German examples. Cocoa powder, toasted nuts, and spices in the finish are deliciously counterpoised with invigorating tart berry skin and saline, chalky mineral notes. This lovely wine - in another class from its vintage predecessor - should be worth following for at least 6-8 years.http://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/WeingutKeller.aspJR 18/20 (8/2009): Nutty, bright very intense fruit - so ripe! A real miracle in this year, presumably, with real TBA characteristics and masses of acidity. The richness is so great that the metallic element is subsumed. Drink 2014 to 2028.http://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/WeingutKeller.aspJR 18.5 (9/2007):Very youthful purple-edged crimson, medium density with a pale rim. Meaty sundried tomato and some spicy oak notes but these do not overwhelm the fine red and black fruits. Lovely classy oak - a very classy wine altogether. Firm fine tannins. Very fresh. Very very long.http://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/WeingutKeller.asphttp://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/WeingutKeller.aspJR 18.5 (9/2007): Keller’s oldest vineyard, which has been in the family since 1789. Yellow limestone soil. Harvested 20 October at 3.5 tonnes per ha (c 25 hl/ha). Quite a few small bubbles clinging to the glass. Fuller and more aromatic - with a vanilla sweetness that is nothing to do with oak, just a creamy overlay to the rich fruit purity of ripe sweet lemons and fresh apricots. Richer, fuller and more open on the palate than the Kirchspiel. Similarly eleganct but wth greater density. Very long and very zesty finish. WA 89 (10/2008): Keller’s 2006 Dalsheimer Hubacher Riesling Grosses Gewachs is scented with raw almond, honey, and peach kernel. It offers a correspondingly bitter-sweet and piquant as well as creamy-textured palate impression and finish, its enhanced body and honeyed richness as well as bitterness reflecting the presence of botrytis by the time it was harvested – as the last of this year’s dry wines.http://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/WeingutKeller.aspJR 19 (9/2008): Another unique expression of terroir with concentrated aromas of ginger almost tickling one’s olfactory senses. A gentle prolonged extraction has provided the wine with a firm backbone of astringency giving it even greater substance and longevity. Fine, sensual and promising complexity maybe beyond powers of verbal description, but not of appreciative exclamations.WA 92 (10/2009): Keller’s 2007 Dalsheimer Hubacker Riesling Grosses Gewachs smells flinty, pungent, and smoky – in short (and among other things) slightly reductive – and needs time in the air to open up. Zesty grapefruit and juicy lime and peach mingle with alkaline, chalky, and smoky mineral elements on a dynamic palate which however lacks the singular combination of creaminess and energy exhibited by the Kirchspiel. The striking thing about this Hubacker is its sheer grip, not so much a savory as rather a sheer tactile intensity of finish which, however, never crosses to the unpleasant side of bitterness. Anticipate more than a dozen years of fascination, and make no assumptions as to whether this or the Kirchspiel will ultimately prove more complex or satisfying as that will in any event depend on the occasion and one’s predilections, not to mention their as yet inscrutable stages of evolution.http://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/WeingutKeller.aspWA 93 (2/2010): The Keller 2008 Dalsheimer Hubacker Riesling Grosses Gewachs smells exotically floral like a walk through a tropical greenhouse as well as of ripe peach, raw almond, and citrus. With almost dramatic purity of fruit and transparency to floral and saline, chalky, and crystalline mineral nuances, this sacrifices a bit of the richness and low tones of the Kirchspiel for the sake of delicacy. Almond cream and spirit-like inner-mouth aromatic suggestions essence of cherry, white peach, and apricot, with subtly cyanic suggestions of their pits add allure. This site reveals the strongest difference in character from 2007 when its exemplification had strikingly tactile presence and grip yet both vintages share inscrutable mineral mystery and the promise of enormous fascination as they evolve over the next decade or more.JR 19 (10/2009): Rather than opulent in its fragrance, this convinces with a more refined combination of spices and yellow fruit; on the palate this exhibits a perfect balance of local and exotic fruit (ripe apples, juicy pears, grapefruit, oranges), spice (nutmeg) and a mouthwatering acidity; great structure, complexity and length.http://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/WeingutKeller.aspWA 94 (2/2011): Keller’s 2009 Dalsheimer Hubacker Riesling Grosses Gewachs offers a somehow cooler but no less complex or mysterious floral bouquet - here suggestive of gentian and iris - than did its counterpart from 2008. Scents and saliva-inducing impingement of apple, fresh lime, chalk, and salt ignites an invigorating, almost levitating finishing interchange of fresh and distilled fruit, floral, fruit pit, and mineral elements. Dynamically bright yet coolly refreshing and with a striking, shimmering sense of clarity (but by no means cool in the stand-offish manner of the corresponding Kirchspiel), this beauty should be fascinating to follow over the next dozen or more years. No doubt Keller is correct - these are, after all, among his own precious children - in judging this Hubacker to be at a more expressive stage than the corresponding (in his words "shier, more restrained") Kirchspiel, but I perceive the expression of brightness and minerality of Hubacker as inherently more engaging.IWC 92 (2/2011): Exuberant aromas of ripe apricot, sweet lime and herbal spices. The crisp, clean structure of this wine masks its intensity and weight today; flavors of ethereal passion fruit and spices dominate. Fine minerality extends the very long finish. This is again the most approachable of Keller's dry rieslings.http://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/WeingutKeller.aspWA 94 (2/2011): Keller’s 2009 Dalsheimer Hubacker Riesling Grosses Gewachs offers a somehow cooler but no less complex or mysterious floral bouquet - here suggestive of gentian and iris - than did its counterpart from 2008. Scents and saliva-inducing impingement of apple, fresh lime, chalk, and salt ignites an invigorating, almost levitating finishing interchange of fresh and distilled fruit, floral, fruit pit, and mineral elements. Dynamically bright yet coolly refreshing and with a striking, shimmering sense of clarity (but by no means cool in the stand-offish manner of the corresponding Kirchspiel), this beauty should be fascinating to follow over the next dozen or more years. No doubt Keller is correct - these are, after all, among his own precious children - in judging this Hubacker to be at a more expressive stage than the corresponding (in his words "shier, more restrained") Kirchspiel, but I perceive the expression of brightness and minerality of Hubacker as inherently more engaging.IWC 92 (2/2011): Exuberant aromas of ripe apricot, sweet lime and herbal spices. The crisp, clean structure of this wine masks its intensity and weight today; flavors of ethereal passion fruit and spices dominate. Fine minerality extends the very long finish. This is again the most approachable of Keller's dry rieslings.http://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/WeingutKeller.aspIWC 93 (2/2009): Rich golden yellow. Fruit-driven aromas of passion fruit, pineapple and sweet lime. The lush, sweet fruit is at first almost overwhelming, but a bright spiciness lightens and cleanses the palate. Finishes sweet and long, and not at all cloying. A very pure auslese with excellent potential.http://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/WeingutKeller.asphttp://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/WeingutKeller.asphttp://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/WeingutKeller.aspWA 90 (2/2011): Keller’s 2009 Monsheimer Silberberg Rieslaner Auslese (above Spatlese level, he is “allowed” by regional VDP regulations to employ the site name for a non-Riesling!) is, in all but name, a Beerenauslese, and packs the acidity (11 grams) of an Eiswein. The impression of pickled, spiced melon rind I had from the corresponding Spatlese is enhanced to the point of prickly pungency in the present instance. There is some superficiality to the sweetness here despite the wine’s prominent acidity, and the pineapple and peach manifest a glazing of honey and caramel as well as a dusting of spices and a squeeze of fresh lemon. I miss the lift and refreshment of the corresponding Spatlese, but perhaps that – as well as more knittedness – will come with time. I certainly don’t expect this long-finishing elixir to succumb to old age for at least 20 years.http://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/WeingutKeller.aspWA 90 (10/2009): The 2007 Monsheimer Silberberg Rieslaner Beerenauslese features brown-spiced grilled pineapple, apple jelly, and grapefruit with aromatic whiffs of smoke and yeast. Oily in texture, honeyed, and exceedingly sweet, it heads in a syrupy direction despite harboring this grape’s trademark high acidity, but certainly clings with remarkable tenacity, and will probably be very long-lived.http://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/WeingutKeller.aspWA 88 (10/2009): The basic Keller 2007 Riesling trocken suggests pumpkin and winter squash along with lime, apricot, and hints of fresh mint and sage, offering a polished and substantial yet clear and refreshing display, with its 8 grams of residual sugar proving to be just enough to set off the fruit and steer the finish away from austerity. Enjoy this anytime over the next 2-3 years.http://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/WeingutKeller.aspWA 88 (2/2011): Green apple and rhubarb convey a tart but saliva-inducing cast to Keller’s generic 2009 Riesling trocken. Hints of gooseberry and cassis enhance its Sauvignon-like cast, and it acts even lighter than its 12.5% alcohol suggests, finishing with juicy refreshment and an invigorating adjunct of salt, apple pip, chalk, and toasted almond. Enjoy it over the next couple of years.http://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/WeingutKeller.aspWA 90 (12/2011): Grapefruit, lime, corn tassel, Persian melon, and milled grain scent Keller’s 2010 Riesling trocken Von der Fels trocken, then launch onto a palate silken yet vivacious, with succulence, and - despite substantiality - levity and charm that go well beyond the virtues of the corresponding basic generic bottling. There is infectious juiciness and saliva-liberating salinity to the vibrant finish of this beauty, and I would anticipate its performing adeptly and delectably at table over the next half dozen or more years.http://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/WeingutKeller.asphttp://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/WeingutKeller.aspIWC 92 (2/2011): White peach, basil and salted almonds on the nose. Silky and refined, with very pure kiwi fruit enlivened by zesty acidity. Salty finishing minerality will assure this wine of a long life. WA 91 (2/2011): The Keller 2009 Westhofener Kirchspiel Riesling Grosses Gewachs features pungent, piquant lime zest, peach kernel, and cherry pit allied to tart citrus and yellow plum, salt and chalk, all of which make for an almost fiercely penetrating and invigoratingly persistent if spare and lightly astringent performance. This certainly isn’t about flattery or ingratiation. German growers and critics love applying the word “puristic” to such a Riesling, which I suppose is better than “puritanical” – but my, is this wine strict! As it took on air, a slightly more enticing, saliva-inducing sense of salinity and shellfish reduction emerged. I don’t envision it ever achieving the delicacy and poise that its 2008 rendition displayed even at this young age, but it should certainly be fascinating as well as palate-stimulating to follow in the course of the coming decade. While Keller has now begun to implement the plan I discussed in issue 187 of releasing some Grosse Gewachse only in the year after bottling, that delayed release will not apply to either the Hubacker or Kirchspiel, although based on my perception of the latter’s personality, it above all should be considered as a candidate.http://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/WeingutKeller.aspIWC 91 (2/2008): Rich golden yellow. Heady aromas of candied pineapple, toasted almond and vanilla mingle with brown spice botrytis tones. The sweet tropical fruit flavors show good weight and flow creamily over the palate. Finely spiced on the long finish.http://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/WeingutKeller.aspIWC 92 (2/2009): Golden yellow. Subtle aromas of candied pineapple, toasted pine nuts and acacia blossom. The sweet, weighty fruit flows creamily over the palate. Finely spiced and long on the finish. Very appealing, but not quite as serious as the other auslese bottlings. JR 17.5/20 (7/2008): Minerals and tension on the nose with lots of pure Riesling fruit. Drink 2010 to 2018.http://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/WeingutKeller.asphttp://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/WeingutKeller.asphttp://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/WeingutKeller.aspWA 91 (2/2011): A 2009 Westhofener Kirchspiel Riesling Spatlese offers Keller as well as this decisively mineral-displaying site a chance to show what they can do in the echelons of high residual sugar. Pear and Ranier cherry in the nose migrate to a glossy, sappy, succulent, and unabashedly sweet palate while saline as well as chalky inflections lend invigorating interest and counter the sense of sweetness in a lip-smackingly long finish. This will perform deliciously for at least a dozen years.http://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/WeingutKeller.aspWA 89 (10/2009): The Keller 2007 Westhofener Kirchspiel Riesling Spatlese is redolent of maracuja and pineapple; opulently ripe to the edge of syrupy; and (not surprisingly, given its mere 7.5% alcohol) delicate. A finishing hint of white raisin underscores this wine’s sheer ripeness and suggests a flirtation with botrytis. A passionate and prodigiously knowledgeable devotee of Mosel Riesling, Keller is convinced of the ability to achieve the same sort of balance and expressiveness in his own sites, but I miss here the exuberant juiciness, transparency to mineral nuance, and uncanny irrelevance of high residual sugar that are among the hallmarks of great sweet Mosel Riesling. Certainly, though, this undeniably impressive wine will eventually diminish in its impression of sheer sweetness, and might surprise me in its expressivity, if given a decade or more in bottle.http://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/WeingutKeller.aspWA 92 (2/2010): Evocations of char and smoke, along with apricot and its kernels, on the nose of Keller’s 2008 Westhofener Morstein Riesling Grosses Gewachs lead to an expansive palate seemingly saturated with crushed stone; glycerin-rich and plush, yet shot through with efficacious citricity; and finishing with a cling of citrus oils, ginger, chalk dust, cocoa powder, and peat. “It’s that sticky clay component at the heart of the Morstein and the mother rock beneath that you’re tasting,” suggests Keller evocatively if perhaps controversially. The “little” Morstein (a.k.a. Westhofener Riesling) is more refreshing and no less dense, but certainly cannot pretend to the same depth or complexity as this. Like other current Keller Grosse Gewachse, I would plan to follow this over the coming 10-12 years, although one’s experience in that regard is necessarily limited to the much smaller number of – and different approach to – dry Rieslings at this estate during the 1990s. Incidentally, there are around 6,000 bottles of this year’s Kirchspiel and Hubacker Grosse Gewachse, whereas thanks to its restriction to old vines, there are only around 2,000 of this Morstein.http://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/WeingutKeller.aspIWC 93 (2/2011): Seductive aromas of apricot, toasted pine nuts and lemon oil. The velvety texture and finely wrought nectarine flavor are given balance by an understated acidity. A persistent spiciness lingers on the long, unctuous finish. The most majestic of the dry rieslings here.WA 92 (2/2011): Now not slated to be released until 2011, Keller’s 2009 Westhofener Morstein Riesling Grosses Gewachs seems almost at pains to prove the wisdom of that choice by offering a pithy fruit skin chew and an almost gum-numbing, persimmon-like pungency, allied to tingling brightness of fresh lemon, pink grapefruit, and bitter tartness of its zest that offer a prickly rebuff to anyone anticipating immediate pleasure. This is an embryonic and severely concentrated young Riesling, though one whose energy certainly appears equal to its sheer density. It finishes with pointed bitterness, blazing citric intensity, and a formidable, near avalanche of crushed stone and other less identifiable mineral elements - seemingly unstoppable ? which is not the same as saying it’s irresistible (at least, not for now)! I wrote in my initial notes that "only time can tell whether this has a gentler side to its undeniably complex and formidable personality, and it will be most interesting to follow its evolution during the coming decade." Eleven days later (!), Keller confronted me, blind, with the contents of the same bottle, and the wine was not only pristine in terms of its absence of oxidation, it also displayed greater primary juiciness and clarity to a more refined diversity of mineral elements.http://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/WeingutKeller.aspIWC 93 (2/2011): Seductive aromas of apricot, toasted pine nuts and lemon oil. The velvety texture and finely wrought nectarine flavor are given balance by an understated acidity. A persistent spiciness lingers on the long, unctuous finish. The most majestic of the dry rieslings here.WA 92 (2/2011): Now not slated to be released until 2011, Keller’s 2009 Westhofener Morstein Riesling Grosses Gewachs seems almost at pains to prove the wisdom of that choice by offering a pithy fruit skin chew and an almost gum-numbing, persimmon-like pungency, allied to tingling brightness of fresh lemon, pink grapefruit, and bitter tartness of its zest that offer a prickly rebuff to anyone anticipating immediate pleasure. This is an embryonic and severely concentrated young Riesling, though one whose energy certainly appears equal to its sheer density. It finishes with pointed bitterness, blazing citric intensity, and a formidable, near avalanche of crushed stone and other less identifiable mineral elements - seemingly unstoppable ? which is not the same as saying it’s irresistible (at least, not for now)! I wrote in my initial notes that "only time can tell whether this has a gentler side to its undeniably complex and formidable personality, and it will be most interesting to follow its evolution during the coming decade." Eleven days later (!), Keller confronted me, blind, with the contents of the same bottle, and the wine was not only pristine in terms of its absence of oxidation, it also displayed greater primary juiciness and clarity to a more refined diversity of mineral elements.http://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/WeingutKeller.aspWA 89 (12/2002): The fat, sweet, rich 2001 Riesling Auslese Wehlener Sonnenuhr* is a let-down after tasting its star-less cousin. It displays poached pear and juicy cherry aromas as well as a broad, medium-bodied, oily-textured personality. While excellent, plump, thick, and creamy, it lacks the verve, focus, and delineation for an outstanding score. Drink it over the next 10 years.http://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/HerbertKerpen.asphttp://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/HerbertKerpen.asphttp://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/VonKesselstatt.aspWS 90 (3/2004): A real core of apple and peach notes are wrapped up in a firm structure. Dense and long, this needs time to unravel its stony secrets. Drink now through 2008. 300 cases made.http://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/DrLoosen.asphttp://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/FurstvonMetternich.asphttp://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/JJPrum.asphttp://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/JJPrum.asphttp://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/JJPrum.asphttp://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/JJPrum.asphttp://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/JJPrum.asphttp://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/JJPrum.asphttp://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/JJPrum.asphttp://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/JJPrum.asphttp://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/JJPrum.asphttp://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/JJPrum.asphttp://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/SchlossReinhartshausen.asphttp://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/SaintJosef.asphttp://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/SaintJosef.aspWA 95 (10/2006): When it comes to the realm occupied by Zilliken’s extraordinary 2005 Saarburger Rausch Riesling Auslese Gold Capsule A.P. #8, he readily – indeed gleefully – admits to having produced remarkable volumes. “This #8 is the sort of wine of which one would ordinarily harvest two or three hundred liters,” he explains, “whereas I harvested 3,700 liters.” Date, dried apricot, grapefruit, and honey aromas set the stage for an intense mouthful of dried pit fruit concentrate, citrus, and honey that exhibits incredible focus, clarity and finishing penetration, yet comes off as gentler than several of the other Auslesen in this collection, with delicacy, refinement and lift, and among great 2005s, must count as a bargain!WS 94 (5/2007): Spiced pear, lime and golden raisin notes swirl around a laserlike structure that keeps this centered. A racy style, with less concentration, yet showing plenty of intensity and a lovely lime and slate aftertaste. Best from 2010 through 2030. 100 cases imported.IWC 94 (2/2007): Rich gold. Full-blown aromas of dried apricot, acacia honey and candied dates waft over the brown-spice botrytis.Unctuous honey-glazed pineapple flavor counterpointed by robust, bright acidity. Polished, delicate and high-toned on the finish.Given the almost 5,000 bottles produced, this is an astonishing wine.http://www.flickingerwines.com/growers/Zilliken.asp