“Muller-Catoir’s 2008 Haardter Herzog Rieslaner Trockenbeerenauslese is a masterpiece written in an entirely different key from their similarly awesome and embryonic Schlossel T.B.A. This blasts from the glass like a gale of salty, alkaline sea breeze, along with pungent scents of spruce resin, dried apricot, and white pepper. Almost gelatinous in texture and shot through with tooth-threatening fresh lemon – yet, for all that, with an alluring suggestion of creaminess – it makes a pure, penetrating, rapier bee-line for your tonsils. With even less overt sweetness than the corresponding Schlossel, the finish is positively implacable, searing in brightness, and accompanied by an astonishingly intense sense of saline minerality for a nobly sweet elixir. It might leave you licking your wounds, not your lips! Plan on following some for three or more decades, provided you’re young enough, brave enough, and wealthy enough.” 96 points, David Schildknecht, The Wine Advocate