The 2017 Riesling Ürziger Würzgarten Auslese *** (Golden Capsule) is a very intense and concentrated yet pure and fruity Auslese provided with refreshing crunchy, herbal and iron-rich, clayey slate aromas. This displays perfect botrytis on a bright, pure, fresh and delicate bouquet full of ripe stone and citrus fruits as well as notes of crushed stones. It is fascinatingly fresh and salty-piquant on the palate, with pronounced acidity; this is a sweet but weightless Auslese with acidity that cuts through fruit and slate and tickles the tongue. This is a highly stimulating and crystalline Auslese that is impossible to spit out. Simply amazing! Tasted at the domain in April 2019. -SR

It’s already evident on the nose that this bottling offers astonishing fresh-fruit concentration for a Riesling of BA must weight, specifically of grapefruit, lime and strawberry, which are wreathed in a greenhouse-like aura of flowers and foliage. Oily and rich in the mouth yet animatingly bright, it finishes with blazing penetration, mouthwateringly salt-tinged and lent invigoration by nips of crystallized ginger. -- David Schildknecht