Elegant, with an enticing angel food cake texture to the ripe apple, peach and baked pear flavors. Very spicy, showing hints of cream and plenty of honey on the rich, alluring finish. Drink now through 2035. 20 cases imported. –KM

(91+) Like the 2014 Braune Kupp Kabinett, the regular Spätlese from this vineyard was more evolved and precise at the time of my visit than the more adolescent Scharzhofberger #4 Spätlese. The bouquet is pure, complex and really very pretty in its mélange of pear, apple, lime blossoms, refined slate notes, bee pollen, a touch of petrol and a nice dollop of upper register smokiness. On the palate the wine is medium-full, long and silky on the attack, with very good mid-palate depth, ripe acids and a long, filigreed and wide open finish that closes with fine purity and grip. An utterly suave young Spätlese. (Drink between 2015-2035)