The 2007 Hallgartener Jungfer Riesling Kabinett emphasizes floral perfume – here peony- and licorice-like – along with scents and succulent, soothing palate impressions of ripe peach and lightly poached pear. Ultra-delicate, with a somewhat slight but juicy and refreshing finish, this seems destined to be best drunk in the next 2-3 years, with its youthful fruit and sweetness still intact.
Even in high-elevation, breezy Hallgarten, and given almost six weeks to harvest, to hear Fred Prinz tell it, getting healthy, truly ripe fruit in 2007 represented intensive labor and strategy. The tartness and green herbal character of his (as usual, machine-harvested) basic dry Riesling betrays some drawbacks of early picking, but Prinz needed a good volume of clean, well-concentrated, healthy fruit, and that he certainly achieved.
Imported by Dee Vine Wines, San Francisco, CA tel. (877) 389-9463; also imported by Magellan Wines, Centennial, CO tel. 720-272-6544
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