Wiltinger Braune Kupp Auslese, Le Gallais, Egon Müller 2015

This offers a superbly delicate and racy nose driven by ginger, bergamot and minerals but also some pineapple and coconut. The wine is racy and elegant more than expressive on the palate at this early stage but the gorgeously pure feel of apricot, herbs and more pineapple in the mouthwatering finish is a telltale sign of greatness to come. This could actually easily exceed our high expectations in a decade or more. It is that impressive! 2025-2050

The 2015 Braune Kupp Auslese that I tasted (and I assume there may be another one in the cellar, or a Goldkapsel perhaps?) is really superb, offering up a simply stunning nose of white cherries, fresh lime, a touch of honey to come with bottle age, a lovely base of slate minerality, violets and an esthery topnote of bee pollen. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied, elegant and very, very long and vibrant, with laser-like focus, a lovely sense of creaminess in the core, zesty acids and a beautiful, long and youthful finish. Knowing Herr Müller’s preferences, I would imagine that this has a nice, gentle touch of very clean botrytis to it, rather than having been made solely from golden berries. A simply beautiful wine in the making.