"Honey and salted caramel mingle with strawberry preserves on the nose and creamy palate of Loosen's 2011 Urziger Wurzgarten Riesling Auslese, representing a direct and obvious extension of his two 2011 Wurzgarten Spatlesen. With sweetness a bit stickier here than in those Spatlesen, it is a good thing that cooling suggestions of herbal concentrates and lime sorbet help keep the wine subtly refreshing. While this just misses the layered complexity, primary juiciness and focus of the gold capsule Spatlese, it manages by its extra measure of richness and honeyed botrytis character to differentiate itself as 'true' Auslese by Loosen and Schug's definition, and it may well acquire additional allure in the course of the next couple of decades." - David Schildknecht
