Based on botrytized fruit (about 30%, the rest was healthy) with an average of 92° Oechsle, the 2021 Brauneberger Juffer-Sonnenuhr Riesling Auslese opens with an intense but delicate bouquet of tropical fruits with brown sugar and finely broken slate and cocoa milk notes. Crystalline and saline on the palate and with razor-sharp but fine acidity, this is a just-ripe, filigreed but quite intense Auslese with a straight and tangy character. It is by far not as fine and delicate as I used to know it, but it's definitely a wine for hard core Riesling freaks that praise acidity and vintage character above everything else. 95 grams of residual sugar? The acidity doesn't just leave the sweetness, it bites it away. 7.5% stated alcohol. Natural cork. Tasted at the domaine in July 2022.