The 2018 Piesporter Goldtröpfchen Riesling Spätlese (Gold Capsule) is still reductive on the super clear and flinty nose with its pineapple aromas and notes of crushed stones. From roughly 30-year-old vines, the grapes were picked perfectly healthy at 100° Oechsle. This is a salty-piquant, fresh, elegant, straight and precise Spätlese with lingering salinity and crispy slate on the finish. This is a highly (dangerously) stimulating and salty-piquant Riesling. The wine was bottled in early March with 7.5% alcohol, 87 grams per liter of residual sugar and eight grams per liter of total acidity. Tasted in March 2019.
