From entirely healthy grapes sourced in the Kriebslay and picked at 95° Oechsle, the 2018 Erdener Treppchen Riesling Sp?tlese (AP 7 19) opens with a lovely clear, fresh and spicy/flinty bouquet of ripe, concentrated, healthy fruit aromas intermingled with delicate lemon zest notes. Lush but crystalline and persistently piquant on the palate, this is a sweet but elegant, refined and playful Treppchen Sp?tlese with a quiet course over the palate and a finely gripping finish. It's highly attractive and seductive already today. Bottled with 8% alcohol, 90 grams per liter of residual sugar and 7 grams per liter of total acidity; closed with a screwcap. Tasted in July 2019.