This youthful auslese is still showing a lot of postfermentation estery characters: it’s very perfumed and floral, with such tropical notes as banana and pineapple. The fruit is nearly overwhelming, and the wine is on the sweet side, so it’s easy to overlook the underlying minerality, but it’s there. Worth cellaring until at least 2015. ——J.C.(8/1/2009)—— 92