Piesporter Goldtröpfchen, Riesling, Spätlese, 2018
More reductive and racy than either of the previous Spatlesen, full of jostle and texture and a sense of light refracting through a prism. Backlit green fruits, gooseberry, kiwi and lime but also peach and a fine minerality. Bright eyed.
critic reviews
Lime, grapefruit and cassis mingle on the nose with yeasty, smoky fermentative residues. In keeping with the performance of this wine’s Kabinett counterpart, it exhibits an animating tang and enticing juiciness of citrus as well as an interplay of those features with crystalline stony impingements that set it aside from the majority of 2018s, and in particular from others in the present collection. Yet the feel is flatteringly creamy and glossy. The refreshingly lingering finish incorporates both nut paste and confectionary hints and citrus seed piquancy for further fascinating counterpoint on top of the aforementioned citrus-mineral exchange. It’s worth reiterating in connection with this wine’s comparatively strong showing that Haag is able to draw on eleven disparate parcels in the Goldtröpchen Einzellage.