My wine of the vintage in this offering, and an astonishing wine; since 2004 this has had what I call the "1975 fragrance" (perhaps the most beloved of all recent Mosel vintages)as it does now again; there's also a brashness of pure apple; but my god, the palate! Explosive, shattering intensity of what's at core a tender thing, zen-tender, calm in confidence of its perfect firm strength; endlessly generous but without gushing or bellowing; a mentholated high-toned apple vein fills out the finish, which seems to spiral outward into eddies and whorls of complexity.