The winery’s flagship Riesling collaboration with Ernst Loosen has tweaked the vineyard sources and developed some new approaches to vine management in an ongoing effort to make Eroica more Germanic. This is a tight, high acid wine, that carries its 1.6% residual sugar with the grace of a spatlese. It briskly walks the line between crisp apple/citrus and off-dry honeyed sweetness, with tremendous length across the palate.——P.G.(8/1/2006)—— 92