I consider the Willi Haag 2009 Brauneberger Juffer Riesling Kabinett feinherb a classic Kabinett: light-weight, lip-smacking, mineral-inflected, and judiciously sweet. But I have sympathy for the use of “feinherb” on the label to call attention to the fact that the level of residual sugar in this Riesling is far below what has in the past dozen or so years become the new non-dry Kabinett norm (and the alcohol, at 11%, correspondingly higher). An invigorating salinity and sappy sense of fruit persistence make for a truly lip-smacking finish. This ought to delight for at least the next 6-8 years, though there is no reason to defer the pleasure of its company. According to Inge Haag, the impact of sporadic October rain was greater in Brauneberg than in most other Mosel villages, and losses to perosopera and negative botrytis led to an unusually small crop (reflected inter alia in the relative absence of wines that require reference to their A.P.#s to disambiguate!) and a relatively early conclusion to the harvest in the final days of October. Must weights, notes Markus Haag, were in an unusually narrow band this year, the choice of which lots to declare as being of which Pradikat falling almost entirely on the basis of style. Fruit from the Burgerslay vineyard so often responsible for the most distinctively delicious wines at this address was in 2009 spread around rather than being dedicated to a single bottling.Numerous importers, including Atlanta Improvement Co.; tel. (404) 876 4500, Imperial Beverage, Kalamazoo, MI; tel. (269) 382 4200, Import A-N-T Wines, Venice, FL; tel. (941) 493 3000, Winebow Inc., Montvale, NJ; tel. (201) 445-0620