Ripe yet pure, with lacy floral character filled out with sweet ripe peach and a note of petrol. Shows savory, lime-edged acidity and bitter chalky minerality, which add nice grip, with a salty, briny note echoing through the snappy, medium-length finish. Drink now through 2025.??–KB??Region: Austria / Nieder?sterreich / Kamptal Select to Add

Ripe and rich, this white offers apricot, peach, spice and earth flavors. Shows more up front, tailing off on the finish, with good underlying cut. Drink now. 500 cases made, 75 cases imported.??–BS??Region: Austria / Nieder?sterreich / Kamptal Select to Add

Racy, exuding herb, smoke, peach and lime aromas and flavors in a focused, elegant frame. A good zip of acidity leads to a mouthwatering finish. Drink now through 2024. 90 cases imported.??–AZ??Region: Austria / Nieder?sterreich / Kamptal Select to Add

Hirsch 2010 年份的這款 Riesling Heiligenstein 酒液清澈透亮，帶有桃子、酸橙、金錢橘和礦物質(zhì)的味道，還帶有龍膽和鳶尾草又苦又甜的花香。 這款酒在六月份品嘗時還未進行過濾，仍然處于發(fā)酵中。

The 2007 Riesling Heiligenstein – which was bottled shortly before the 2008 harvest – offers alluring floral perfume (buddleia, honeysuckle) typical for this site. It displays surprising lift, refinement, and delicacy (at 12.3% alcohol) when one considers both the wine’s glossy creamy texture and its sheer concentration of flavors, here including peach, melon, grapefruit, herbs, and persistent flowers. This finishes with ravishing generosity of luscious fruit supported by barely noticeable (16 grams) residual sugar, and accompanied by refined if ineffable touches of minerality. Johannes Hirsch was already done harvesting in 2007 on October 8 (after starting September 13), not far behind the Nikolaihof. And there is another connection with that venerable estate which may or may not be vital: Hirsch has been passionately pursuing a biodynamic path. I did manage to get a smile out of him when I suggested that he consider replacing the pile of cow horns he had accumulated with much rarer and surely more efficacious antlers of elk (Hirsch). “The clusters were beautifully golden-yellow, perfect,” he relates, so there was no need to wait, which meant missing out on the mid-October rains.Importer: Terry Theise Estate Selections, imported by Michael Skurnik Wines, Inc., Syosset, NY; tel. (516) 677-9300