A ripe intense and exotic style delivering apricot passion fruit mango white pepper and stone aromas and flavors. For all its richness this has great structure lending verve and cut. The finish is long and satisfying. Drinkable now but will only improve with age. Best from 2012 through 2023. 100 cases made.

Dusty smoky as well as cyanic fruit pit notes in the nose of Pfeffingen's 2009 Ungsteiner Herrenberg Riesling Grosses Gewachs M (whose initial stands-in for the name of its vineyard of origin the Mardelskopf) set the tone for the third consecutive installment of this wine to tend toward the austere. Firm brightly citric and rather angular a hint of salinity lends this some ingratiating saliva-inducement but stony and bitter notes pursue the theme of austerity all the way through the finish. -DS