The 2004 Rudesheimer Berg Roseneck Riesling Spatlese was showing considerable reduction and while there were some lovely fruit characteristics beneath that, the wine was in no shape to judge. Leitz’s 2004 Rudesheimer Berg Schlossberg Riesling Spatlese represents botrytised fruit culled out in the process of selecting for the dry wines. Ripe peach, pear, musky florality and vanilla hover over the glass. Soft and faintly milky in texture on the palate, this is just dripping with super ripe orchard fruits and honey as well as exuding heady, musky inner-mouth gardenia-sweet florality. This wine’s finish is sweet, with vanilla and flowers accentuating the impression. I strongly suspect that it was reduced, and will both blossom and clarify over the next few months.