Packed with spice this is distinctive and racy. Licorice and grapefruit comes into play as this rides the bracing structure to a long conclusion. Light and intense with a persistent savory aftertaste. Drink now through 2020. 200 cases imported. -BS

The Haart 2007 Piesporter Goldtropchen Riesling Kabinett smells of pear grapefruit and pineapple. Rather soft and pliable on the palate - particularly in direct comparison with the corresponding Grafenberg - this nonetheless has a soothing elegant and delicate personality and finishes with a long lovely if low-energy counterpoint of rich ripe fruit; faint nuttiness and black fruit tartness; and saline and wet stone mineral expressions. A dozen or more years of felicitous cohabitation should be possible. -DS