The 2019 Niederberg Helden Riesling Auslese Goldkapsel is clear, very fine and concentrated on the delicate and flinty nose, the result of a great selection of perfect botrytis. Juicy, fresh and piquant on the palate, this is a highly seductive Auslese with great finesse, lingering piquancy and stimulating salinity. Beautiful and buoyant, this Auslese already drinks dangerously well yet should be kept for years and even decades. 7% alcohol. Tasted from AP 2220 in May and June 2020.

Based on 35% to 40% botrytized grapes, the 2017 Niederberg Helden Riesling Auslese –Goldkapsel– is rich and intense on the nose but still bright, clear, citrusy and flinty. On the palate, this is a rich, exuberant and very juicy but refined Auslese with a long, salty-piquant and intense finish. It's perfectly balanced but still pretty sweet, with highly finessed acidity and mouth-filling fruit. Tasted in March 2019.

Picked with 20% to 30% of botrytis, the Lieser 2016 Niederberg Helden Riesling Auslese –Goldkapsel– (AP #18) offers an intense and mineral-laced pain-aux-raisin aroma intertwined with a pretty intense reductive flavor that currently has a bit of the fascinating finesse of the regular Helden Auslese. Racy-piquant and sweet on the lush and elegant palate, with generous fruit intensity and an endless flow of salty-piquant and perfectly ripe Riesling juice, this is a highly promising and stimulating Auslese with a long, complex and grippy finish. Very salty in the aftertaste and, thus, mouthwatering. Please keep this wine for a decade, at least, should you manage to find a bottle. Tasted March 2018.