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...opens with beautifully ripe and elegant fruit intertwined with reductive and flinty notes with crunchy slate aromas. Silky, lush and seamless on the palate, this is a highly finessed and elegant Spätlese with stimulating balance and super fine tannin structure. It is the most elegant, balanced and perhaps also the most classic Mosel Spätlese in the dry style. The finish is clear, fresh and very salty—a crystalline and persistent Sonnenuhr of great class.
Apple blossom and heliotrope share aromatic billing with unanticipated intimations of sea breeze and fresh oyster. The mouthwatering palate impression is at once creamy and animatingly juicy, rich in apple and quince but also replete with saline, alkaline and nutty oyster-flesh notes. The superbly sustained finish offers full-throttle fruit, and the mineral and floral elements are beautifully integrated...