Pink grapefruit and safe flower suggest a dosage of Scheurebe, but no, we have a 100% 2006 Munsterer Dautenpflanzer Riesling Auslese that also pours forth ripe papaya and honeydew. Refreshing and pungently herbal and smoky, this Auslese’s gaudy, exotic ripeness and hint of caramel says “botrytis,” but it is generously juicy and lip-smacking in finish, if not so refined and refreshing as the Pittersberg. Stefan Rumpf’s collections may still – as I wrote of it previously – be “sprawling ... at times hit and miss.” But his aim becomes ever more accurate. (Son Johannes is now intimately involved.) This year, the Rumpfs decided to take advantage of their enhanced acreage of a variety that they would probably have given up on ten years ago had it not been for their importer, and bottle a dry Scheurebe. The timing was perfect, because not only did this estate make some of the only noteworthy Scheurebe of the vintage, but in the Pfalz – even when growers are not challenged as they were in 2006 – Scheurebe is more and more getting marginalized as a “supplemental variety,” destined solely for some of that region’s rare wine of residual sweetness.Importer: Terry Theise Estate Selections, imported by Michael Skurnik Wines, Inc., Syosset, NY; tel. (516) 677-9300