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2017 Reinhold Haart Piesporter Goldtropfchen Riesling Spatlese Mosel

SKU #1412473 94 points James Suckling

Outer quote mark Slightly funky from the wild ferment, but this also has concentrated peaches and blackcurrants. Coupled with succulent sweetness, this makes a serious statement. Needs some time to open up, but it will be very seductive from 2019. Drink or hold. This has long-term aging potential. Inner quote mark (6/2018)

94 points Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

Outer quote mark The 2017 Goldtröpfchen Spätlese is super clear, bright and fresh on the subtle and elegant nose. This is a lean, highly elegant, firm and grippy, persistent and concentrated Spätlese in the Feinherb style, as the residual sugar (73 grams per liter) is pretty much absorbed. Tasted in April 2019. (SR) 94+ Inner quote mark (6/2019)

94 points Wine Spectator

Outer quote mark A fabulous spätlese, rich and exciting, yet packed into a lean framework. Offers a delicious presentation of lemon curd, grapefruit and slate flavors, intensely displayed on bracing acidity. Floral notes emerge on the long finish. Delicious now, but this will age gracefully. Drink now through 2035. Inner quote mark (7/2019)

92 points John Gilman

Outer quote mark There are two different Goldtröpfchen Spätlesen in 2017, with the AP #25 coming in at eight percent alcohol, 8.2 grams per liter of acidity and seventy-two grams per liter of residual sugar. The wine is lovely and succulent right out of the blocks, delivering a fine, complex nose of peach, a touch of passion fruit, cassis, salty minerality, spring flowers and bee pollen. On the palate the wine is medium-full, zesty and offers truly lovely fruit on the attack, with a good core, bright, zesty acids and fine backend salinity from the extract on the long and vibrant finish. This is really pretty and will drink well from the outset. (Drink between 2018-2040). Inner quote mark (6/2018)

K&L Notes

92 points Mosel Fine Wines: "AP: 25 18. The 2017er Piesporter Goldtröpfchen Spätlese was harvested at 92° Oechsle. It offers a rather sharp nose made of grapefruit, lime, gooseberry, minty herbs and some whipped cream. The wine is quite sharp and almost hard on the palate but leaves a beautifully sweet and zesty feel of pear, peach, apricot blossom and minty herbs in the long finish. 2027-2047." (08/2018)

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2017 Reinhold Haart Piesporter Goldtropfchen Riesling Spatlese Mosel

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Riesling

- While the rest of the world has often misappropriated the name--Welchriesling, Riesling Italico, Gray Riesling and Emerald Riesling are all names applied to varieties that are NOT Riesling--this exceptional German varietal has managed to maintain its identity. Perhaps its biggest claims to fame are its intoxicating perfume, often described as having honeyed stone fruit, herb, apple and citrus notes, and its incredible longevity - the wines lasting for decades. Aged Rieslings often take on a distinctive and alluring Petrol-like aroma. Within Germany, the grape seems to do best in the warming slate soils of the Mosel-Saar-Ruwer. Other German regions that turn out great Rieslings include Pfalz, Rheingau and Nahe. German Rieslings are made in a range of ripeness levels. The top wines are assigned Prädikat levels to describe their ripeness at harvest. These are: Kabinett, Spätlese, Auslese, Beerenauslese, Eiswein and Trockenbeerenauslese. Riesling has also achieved acclaim in France's Alsace, the only region in that country where the grape is officially permitted. Alsatian Rieslings are typically dry and wonderfully aromatic. Austrian Riesling is also steadily gaining praise and fine Riesling is also produced in Italy's Alto-Adige and Friuli, in Slovenia and much of Central and Eastern Europe. In the New World its stronghold is Australia, where it does best in the Eden and Clare Valleys. It is also planted in smaller amounts in New Zealand. In the US, winemakers are eschewing the syrupy sweet versions of the 1970s and 1980s, instead making elegant and balanced wines in both California and Washington State.

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Germany

- Thanks to a recent string of excellent vintages and to the reemergence of Germany onto the international wine writing scene, this is a country that's hot, hot, hot! Germany is divided into 13 wine Region and produces a very wide variety of wine styles, from incredibly high-acid, dry wines to some of the sweetest, most unctuous concoctions on the planet and even a few surprisingly hearty reds. Most of the highest-quality wines are grown on steep banks along the rivers in these Region. Small vineyards are still mostly hand tended and picked, due to the difficult nature of mechanization on these slopes. White wine production accounts for nearly 80% of the total with Riesling being the most important varietal, though Muller-Thurgau is still more widely planted.

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