This is also reserved but slightly riper with much more elegant red pinot fruit suffused with obvious minerality and a certain coolness that leads to rich

with terrific cut to its intense flavors of bitter cherry and dark fruit preserves and licorice

newly turned earth and forest floor wisps

Mild reduction knocks down the fruit but there is no such problem with the vibrant

2005 Piesporter Domherr Riesling Kabinett feinherb ($22

Emmanuel Rouget, Bourgogne Rouge other_regions_australia This is also reserved butA ripe and very fresh nose combines notes of both red and dark berries with those of earth and a whiff of humus character. The delicious and nicely vibrant middle weight flavors possess solid depth and persistence while concluding in a bitter cherry pit inflected finale. This is a quality Bourgogne and worth a look.