Breuer’s 2006 Rudesheimer Berg Schlossberg Riesling Auslese Gold Capsule presents an ethereal super-concentrate of yellow plum preserves, apple jelly, honey, brown spices, and Chartreuse-like herbal and floral distillates. Creamy in texture, it nevertheless preserves a welcome, juicy freshness and delicacy of touch. The finish exhibits a remarkable salty, stony mineral presence for a wine so sweet and so far-gone on noble rot, making the sweetness seem almost irrelevant to the wine’s complexity. Hold this for up to 20 years. Heinrich Breuer and Hermann Schmoranz began their Riesling harvest October 6, and finished in record time. Selective picking and watchful decantation and selection of the musts, rather than the use of treatments, was the approach taken here to the problematic health and botrytis of the vintage. The results included a 40% reduction in volume over their recent average.Imported by Classical Wines, Seattle, WA; tel. (206) 547-0255