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It has been a while, way too long, actually, since I reported on a wine made by the lovely people from the Haart winery. The winery is based in the village of Piesport, a name that is infamous in the UK for cheap wine, but famous among wine lovers for the Goldtröpfchen (little drop of gold) vineyard, one of the best at the Mosel. The Haart family has been making wine since the 14th century and the sweet Rieslings of Theo Haart, who runs the family estate with his wife and son, have an excellent reputation. For me they are also the embodiment of what I love about the Mosel style of winemaking.

Golden colour and a nicely structured, delicate flavour: mineral with peach, herb and glucose. In the mouth, creamy texture with nice sweetness and the right amount of spiciness, acid and sweetness nicely integrated. [read the full post...]

Gold, gold, gold - molten gold flowing into our glasses. Intense fruit sugar in the nose and a creamy texture on the tongue. A very fine combination of fruit sugar, pleasant spicy acidity, mineral, honey and peaches galore - with a nice, flavoursome hint of fennel in there (and I don't even like fennel). A wave of fruity gold.

Pure golden colour, intensive (yet polished) fruity sugary flavour with a hint of herbs. Very creamy, intense, many fruit flavours, but perfectly integrated so that it is hard to pick a single one (peach was noticeable though and apricot). [read the full post...]