Schlossgut Diel Dorsheimer Pittermannchen Riesling Grosses Gewachs, Nahe, Germany

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Layering of pear distillate and fresh winter pear in the nose and on the silken-textured palate of Schlossgut Diel’s 2009 Dorsheimer Pittermannchen Riesling Grosses Gewachs, are accompanied by the smokiness of black tea, pineapple, and suggestions of elderberry. A veritably stone-licking underlying intensity that evokes this site’s slate doesn’t diminish from its fresh and persistent sense of tartly-skinned primary juiciness, but rather makes for a vibrant sense of interactive force-multiplication. This ringing Riesling should be well worth following for the next 6-8 years if not longer. Caroline Diel’s 2009 collection is noteworthy not only for a range of outstanding Riesling such as has long been anticipated (though seldom bettered) at this estate, but also for a set of wines from the Pinot family – all, incidentally, now labeled with French rather than German names for their varieties – that in my estimation mark a significant up-tick in quality. That this estate has been famous in Germany for its work with Pinots ever since Armin Diel assumed charge in 1987 and began barrique vinification, I am of course well aware. But only in recent years have I witnessed tendencies to restrain the influence of new wood and to encourage real subtlety, which seem to me prerequisites for achieving with these varieties anything remotely approaching the class of Schlossgut Diel’s Rieslings. The 2009 Pinots were harvested in mid-October and most of the Rieslings in the two weeks following. The superb botrytis selections were all picked-out ahead of even the Pinots.Importer: Terry Theise Estate Selections, imported by Michael Skurnik Wines, Inc., Syosset, NY; tel. (516) 677-9300