Kerpen Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Auslese* 2010

A Kerpen 'one-star' 2010 Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Auslese effusively emits perfume of heliotrope, peony, lemon blossom along with scents of sea breeze, fresh pear, lemon, and grapefruit. Luscious and refreshing but at the same time alluringly creamy, this palate-saturating exercise in ennobled Wehlener Sonnenuhr virtues finishes with an exuberant burst of fresh citrus as well as saliva-inducing salinity to accompany its pear nectar and musk- and vanilla-tinged liquid perfume. The infectious juiciness and fresh-fruitedness here are all the more remarkable in view of the overwhelming presence of botrytis that Kerpen describes in the grapes and its questionable effect in a number of other instances in the present collection. Expect this to reward two decades of attention. Score - 92. (David Schildknecht, erobertparker.com, Feb. 2012)