Weingut Theo Minges Gleisweiler Holle Riesling Spatlese, Pfalz, Germany

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Minges’ 2009 Gleisweiler Holle Riesling Spatlese juxtaposes lemon zest and apple pip with honey and mirabelle preserves. There is a hard-to-describe sense of mineral matter here, offering intrigue and suggesting that this wine may simply need more time to reveal its potential, or that a certain sweet-tart tension may prove more productive with time. This is probably destined to perform well for at least a decade. Despite picking into November, Theo Minges was one of those Sudpfalzer who had no trouble retaining acidity in 2009. Indeed, some of his dry offerings practically left me wanting to don sunglasses during our tasting session. As has become usual at this address, the collection is enormously diverse (and I do not usually taste nearly all of its non-Riesling members). “There are a lot of growers,” jokes Minges, “who have an enormous range of wines because they don’t sell well, so the grower keeps trying something new. I go out to the vineyard, get inspired, have a vision, and then I feel compelled to carry it out. And this repeats itself however many times …Importer: Terry Theise Estate Selections, imported by Michael Skurnik Wines, Inc., Syosset, NY; tel. (516) 677-9300

The 2007 Gleisweiler Holle Riesling Spatlese offers intriguing hints of meat stock and oceanic salinity on the nose. It stopped fermenting at very high residual sugar, but Minges decided it had its own inner harmony, and there is certainly no lack of transparency to mineral nuance here, despite the wine’s creamy texture, overt sweetness, and ultra-ripe white peach and fig. This should prove especially interesting to follow and I would not be at all surprise if it were still performing well (indeed, if it were more even interesting) twenty years from now. (In retrospect, I realize that I did not taste a Schlossgarten Riesling Spatlese.) For the most part, Theo Minges achieved admirable results in 2007, a vintage he saw as playing into his hand by promoting inherent clarity, nuance, and “energy, so that all you had to do in the cellar was direct it.”Importer: Terry Theise Estate Selections, imported by Michael Skurnik Wines, Inc., Syosset, NY; tel. (516) 677-9300

A seamless, sultry Minges 2002, the Riesling Spatlese Gleisweiler Holle, bursts from the glass with spiced pear and apple scents. Medium-bodied, rich, soft, and plush, it is a thick (yet lively) wine filled with blackberries and tangy peaches. Projected maturity: 2004-2015. Importer: Terry Theise Estate Selections, imported by Michael Skurnik Wines, Inc., Syosset, NY; tel. (516) 677-9300

Theo Minges produced structured, high acid, generally excellent wines in 1994. The 1994 Gleisweiler Holle Riesling Spatlese is medium-bodied and crisp, with fine, up-front, earthy, spicy, cinnamon-like fruit, and a short finish. The emphasis is on acidity rather than extract. It was closed and tight when I tasted it in October. Importer: a Terry Theise Selection, Milton S. Kronheim & Co., Jessup, MD; tel. (410) 724-3369