Leitz go to the Rheingau!

TN: 2012 Weingut Josef Leitz Rudesheimer Kirchenpfad Riesling Kabinett feinherb.

Cellared 3 yrs, SC, 13% alc, $24 Cdn. AP# 015-13.

The Leitz wines are readily available downtown and the store owner has just returned from the area with glowing reports on a new tasting room.

Pale lemon with greenish tint. Aroma of apricot, minerality, some ripe fruit, no gasolein. " Lemon and apple " from across the patio. Initial entry thought is slight spritz, good acidity, lengthy.Some nice residual sugar with peach and citrus. Not that sweet however, but could be "more generous in fruit flavors". I always enjoy my Leitz so keen to see when the new arrivals turn up in town.

...could be "more generous in fruit flavors"...

Always an interesting reaction, and I know it well given my predilection towards northerly sour wines. Just when you think it's going to turn the corner into generous succulence, it stops short!

[David M. Bueker]

Feinherb should likely never get to succulence.

Have to agree. Always on the look out for feinherb in my market, expecdet more will show up with forthcoming shipments.