88David Schildknecht - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
"The 2008 Riesling Dragonstone is the latest in Leitz's 11-year series of excellent value residually sweet bottlings from Rudesheim's Drachenstein vineyard (which extends north of the great -Berg vineyards, from the edge of the town all the way out to eastern edge of the Kaisersteinfels). Dragonstone has seldom displayed more vivacity or sheer juiciness - here in the form of lime and grapefruit - nor has it had more tartness (here suggesting crabapple) or herbal pungency. The result is a bit of disharmony, in part noticeable due to the wine's sheer energy. 'Yes, there's a fight between sweetness and acid,' Leitz acknowledges, 'but that's the tension I want.' To my palate, after six months in the bottle, this seemed to have begun knitting itself. Although it is made to be - and I’m sure is almost entirely - drunk up within a year or two, if you follow it for a half dozen years (perhaps longer, we have to wait and see) it remains a joy and takes interesting turns. As has often been the case, Leitz's 2008 Rudesheimer Klosterlay Riesling Kabinett is lighter, looser, more obviously sweet, and far less interesting."
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"The 2008 Riesling Dragonstone is the latest in Leitz's 11-year series of excellent value residually sweet bottlings from Rudesheim's Drachenstein vineyard (which extends north of the great -Berg vineyards, from the edge of the town all the way out to eastern edge of the Kaisersteinfels). Dragonstone has seldom displayed more vivacity or sheer juiciness - here in the form of lime and grapefruit - nor has it had more tartness (here suggesting crabapple) or herbal pungency. The result is a bit of disharmony, in part noticeable due to the wine's sheer energy. 'Yes, there's a fight between sweetness and acid,' Leitz acknowledges, 'but that's the tension I want.' To my palate, after six months in the bottle, this seemed to have begun knitting itself. Although it is made to be - and I’m sure is almost entirely - drunk up within a year or two, if you follow it for a half dozen years (perhaps longer, we have to wait and see) it remains a joy and takes interesting turns. As has often been the case, Leitz's 2008 Rudesheimer Klosterlay Riesling Kabinett is lighter, looser, more obviously sweet, and far less interesting."
