White #Rheingau #wine from Germany: 2005 : http://tinyurl.com/3qjhotd

Wine name: Abtei St. Hildegard.

Producer: Abtei St Hildegard.

Vintage: 2005. Purchased from Rüdesheim.

Appearance: pale yellow, smooth and medium on the glass, crystal clear with quite a light Riesling, with a small of fresh green apples aromatics. The attack is crisp yet quite full-on for an old-world white.

Evolution: Nice and dry, filling the mouth with flavours of green apples, green apple peel, a touch of star fruit and a really good structure with a finish which is star fruit in the swallow, slightly spicy in the nose with cracked pepper.

Sweetness: 0.5
Acidity: 3
Tannin: 0

...with a texture which is hard water and the length is excellent and varied across the tongue with a long lingering finish of English autumn harvest. As for balance, it's lovely balance, this wine has a firm crisp backbone which is balanced by a nice helping of fruit, without being over-powering. It has finesse. The wine has a cork closure and is 13% abv. Overall, this wine is very nice. I always like Abtei St Hildegard's wines, and this one is nicely mature at 6 years old. Good structure, nice subtle and less-subtle flavours and a thoroughly nice bunch of people who sell it in their shop in Rüdesheim-am-Rhein. My score (which is NOT the same as Robert Parker's!) is 91 points.