Weinbach’s 2005 Riesling Schlossberg Cuvee Saint Catherine l’Inedit represents the latest installment of a bottling begun in 1998 to segregate those portions of the Schlossberg whose proclivity for super-ripeness and/or botrytis was precluding the production of a genuinely dry-tasting “Schlossberg Saint Catherine.” Aromas of honey, lightly toasted almond, peach, and peach kernel lead to a wonderfully pure, clear, rich display of peach and honey with alluring linden flower inner-mouth aromatics, and a long finish caressingly rich, honeyed, yet persistently juicy and underlain by crushed stone mineral suggestions. Twenty-four grams of residual sugar leave this tasting only subtly sweet, but I would wait a few years before revisiting it, and have no fear of holding it for 15-20 years.The dynamic trio of Fallers continues to bottle some of France’s (hardly just Alsace’s) richest and most flamboyant wines. Beginning with 2005, all of their vineyards are being biodynamically farmed. Laurence Faller finds their 2005s in general “more focused and clear” (this was especially true of Riesling) despite their often prominent botrytis component, and the 2004s richer. I suppose it goes without saying, but one has to carefully scrutinize each Weinbach label, so numerous are the cuvees. And as wonderful as is the distinctiveness exhibited by the vast majority of wines here, even a geek like yours truly could be forgiven for asking whether somewhat fewer different ottling might benefit consumers as well as journalists!Importer: Vineyard Brands, Birmingham, AL; tel. (205) 980-8802