The 2018 Riesling Wehlener Sonnenuhr Auslese *** (Golden Capsule) offers a fascinating, bright, precise, refined and elegant bouquet of ripe peaches and mangos intertwined with very fine flinty aromas that represent great depth and complexity yet in an excitingly subtle, delicate and delicious way. Sweet, piquant and elegant on the palate, this is a pristine, highly finessed and salty, concentrated yet lush and highly refined WSU with palate-tickling grip and crystalline acidity. The finish is stimulatingly salty and intense and made for long bottle aging, even though the 2018 is already dangerously great and seductive. Compared to the Zeltinger sister Auslese, the Wehlener is the finer and more delicate wine this year. Tasted at the domain in September 2020.- SR

Honeysuckle, lily and heliotrope on the heady nose liquefy on the glossy, lusciously pearsy and appley palate. Here we have fruit concentration of both confitured and fresh cast, with a mingling of marzipan and vanilla cream adding a confectionary dimension, supported by efficacious but in no way excessive sweetness. The profoundly persistent finish soothes and caresses. While irresistible today, I suspect that this will reveal a more savory side with time in bottle. -- David Schildknecht