Rene Mure Clos St. Landelin Vorbourg Riesling Selection de Grains Nobles 2007 500ml

Wine Spectator – the elegance of this wine belies the intensity of its racy acidity and well-meshed frame. Offers layers of flavor--from apple and peach pie to smoke and honey to toffee and a hint of beeswax. This is incredibly silky and lightly mouthcoating, and the finish just keeps going. Drink now through 2030.

Robert Parker/Wine Advocate – Riesling Vorbourg Clos St.-Landelin Selection de Grains Nobles smells hauntingly of sweetly floral perfume; brown spiced apple jelly; and orange marmalade, whose flavors are joined on a glycerin-rich, silken palate by yellow plum preserves and more importantly by an efficacious burst of fresh lime. The result is a remarkable combination of richness with engaging juiciness and sheer refreshment, an instance were rigorous selection of the most perfectly-botrytized berries (along, Mure notes, with some healthily-shriveled) resulted not in a wine of more obvious botrytization but instead one of greater clarity and lift. This ravishing Riesling should gain in complexity and be worth following for a quarter century.