Riesling Brand, Domaine Zind-Humbrecht 2007

The Zind-Humbrecht 2007 Riesling Brand - from the densely granitic Steinglitz portion of this cru - smells gorgeously of iris, lily-of-the-valley, linden, white peach, and grapefruit. Plush and tenderly palate-saturating, dry-tasting at 10 grams residual sugar, its hints of tart and bitter red currant, grapefruit rind, peach pit, hazelnut, and sage offer dynamic counterpoint with its generosity of fruit and texture, persisting with uncanny tenacity, clarity, lift, and energy as well as mysteriously marine minerality and scallop-like sweet-saline savor. This will be exciting to follow over the next 12-15 years if not longer.