Prager Riesling Klaus 2007 Magnum

Parker: The Prager 2007 Riesling Smaragd Klaus exhibits a saline, citric, bittersweet peach and peach pit melange that positively sticks to the gums. This brash, high-strung wine hasn’t got the elegance of Achleiten, but time in bottle will bring some refinement. The finish here is exceptionally transparent, even if it’s hard to express just what mineral stuff you are glimpsing. However else you describe it, this is classic Klaus. It reminds Bodenstein of his 1993, which when set alongside, even now tastes almost a bit too sassy and bright for its own good, and for my money (which it wasn’t, I realize) not in the same league. Expect the 2007 to reward at least a decade’s cellaring.