Willi Schaefer, Graacher Domprobst Riesling Auslese Vintage:2005 cherry and lilac

cherry and lilac

The broad finish features dusty tannins and lovely floral persistence

This needs to develop more depth but it should have no trouble accomplishing that if it is allowed at least 5 to 7 years of bottle age

ample and broad

with copious quantities of black raspberry and cherry fruit intermixed with spicy oak

Willi Schaefer, Graacher Domprobst Riesling Auslese Vintage:2005 cherry and lilacThe auction destined 2005 Graacher Domprobst Riesling Auslese A. P. #2 offers a nose of over ripe melon, brown spices, apple jelly. Oily in texture and tinged with the spice and honey of botrytis on the palate, this then finishes with a shocking brightness and vivacity of citrus infiltrating a finish of quince preserves, apple jelly and jellied red currant. While it may not exhibit the layering or the elegance and delicacy of several of the best wines