The 2005 Riesling trocken, which unites fruit from Brauneberg and Graach, is once again a model of its type, offering lovely aromas of ripe white peach, apple blossom, and lightly toasted nuts, a creamy richness in the mouth, with grapefruit citricity and noticeable levels of residual CO2 helping to enhance its vivacity, and a palate-saturating spread of fruit and wet stone minerality. Enjoy this anytime over the next half dozen years. (The 2001 kept getting better until I drank my last bottle six or eight months ago.)
Also recommended: 2005 Riesling ($20.00; 86).
Importer: Rudi Wiest, Cellars International, Carlsbad, CA; tel. 800-596-9463