The long-fermenting and June, 2007-bottled 2005 Bacharacher Wolfshohle Riesling Trockenbeerenauslese has turned out sensationally. A Chartreuse-like aroma of herbal and floral elixir in the nose accompanied by hints of musk and white raisin is followed by fabulously rich and implosively-concentrated torrent of herbal, floral, and white peach essences shot through with invigorating citrus and saline minerality. This viscous, creamy, buttery, eszencia-like concentrate positively levitates in a finish not just hugely honeyed but wreathed in flowers and underlain by nut oils, caramel, and strikingly savory minerality. Nut-brittle like as well as intensely floral, peachy and honeyed aromas haunt the empty glass. As rich and as amazingly diverse and clearly differentiated in flavors as this is today, I dream of what it might become. If you acquire one of the 200 half-liter bottles, the question is not when it might decline in bottle but rather when you might decline past the point where you can properly appreciate it!
Imported by Sussex Wine Merchants, Moorestown, NJ; tel. (856) 608 9644
