If last year’s Burklin-Wolf rendition did not do this great site complete justice, certainly no such reservations apply to their exciting 2007 Forster Pechstein Riesling trocken GC, a wine uncannily combining utmost transparency of ripe white peach, pink grapefruit, and apricot to myriad herbal and mineral elements, with richness and density. Lavender, buddleia, mint, and bright fresh lime add to the allure here, and the long, piquant, lip-smacking finish is suffused with both wet stone and savory, saline mineral notes. This beauty – which kept getting tastier for as long as I could follow the open bottle – should be worth following for 15 or more years. The biodynamic Burklin-Wolf team, headed by owner Bettina Burklin and cellar master Fritz Knorr continues to excel, and few if any German estates have so successfully fulfilled or cashed in on the ideals that so many of them shared, of focusing on dry wine and on terroir distinctions. The fulfillment lies in consistently well-balanced legally trocken wines and dramatically distinctive single-site bottlings (with an internal ranking of quality rather than use of Pradikat terms or designations as “Grosses Gewachs”). As for cashing in, the prices the top crus here have been able to maintain speak for themselves, although the high quality of Burklin-Wolf’s entire line renders many of these wines excellent values. (I missed out on this year’s Altenburg or Langenmorgen, incidentally, because not a single bottle could be found left behind at the winery last September.) The range of wines readily available in the U.S. is expected to expand as part of a new import and marketing arrangement. Outbreaks of botrytis in certain sites already in late September caused some alarm, but with startling rapidity it dried into nobility so that the estate ended up with a clutch of extraordinary sweet wines featuring almost freakishly high acidity, all of them picked before any others of this year’s Rieslings.Christopher Cannan Europvin Selections (various importers), Bordeaux; fax 001-33-5 57-87-43-22
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