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I caught Stefan Rumpf the day he was to board a night train for Italy and a vacation that, considering the labors necessary to bring any sort of success to bottle this year, was surely well-earned. Like many other growers, Rumpf reported that he resorted to late spraying, aggressive hedging of the vines, and, last but hardly least, selective picking and rigorous sorting to come up with good wines. In the one portion of Pittersberg where he held off spraying in the hope of noble botrytis, Rumpf reports he could in the end only salvage 20% of the fruit. Like Armin Diel, Rumpf has adopted the new legal designations of Classic and Selection for many of his wines, meaning among other things that there are no longer wines labeled Spatlese Trocken, but rather Selection. I would not be suspicious of a mere name change. But it is evident that Rumpf is capitalizing on the new categories in order to chaptalize already high-grade Spatlese musts and, at least to my taste and in the 2000 vintage, the results are sometimes thick and clumsy when compared with successful dry Spatlesen of past vintages. (Terry Theise)

From Germany 2000: Rot and Redemption (Jan 2002) by David Schildknecht

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2000 Munsterer Kapellenberg Riesling Kabinett

Release Price: $17

Color: White

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