2009 Kruger-Rumpf Münsterer Pittersberg Riesling Eiswein

Terry Theise Estate Selections

• By Terry Theise
  2011 German Catalog, 3/1/2011, (See more on Terry Theise Estate Selections...)

  (Kruger-Rumpf Münsterer Pittersberg Riesling Eiswein) ($103.00) First offering. These are both astonishing wines, and you owe it to yourself to see what the real thing is actually like. All due respect to the Canadians, but it’s too easy, and it shows in the wines. The “lighter” of these – at 180° - is a fascinating elixir, salty and malty and wintergreeny, an essence of Pittersberg that will age elegantly; these are not sugar-heavy acid-freaky Eisweins. The Goldkap is of course riper and richer yet amazingly still transparent, albeit massively plummy yet still brilliant; has a fat and salt sweetness like a cidery miso brine you use for pork-belly.