The 2006 Sweet Agnes Riesling comes in with 205 grams of residual sugar and imbued with a captivating, floral nose with honey, peach, nectarine and passion fruit all with good definition. The palate is well-balanced with good acidity cutting through all that unctuous fruit, notes of mango, ginger, peach and passion fruit all with a lightness of touch that ensures this wine never becomes cloying or blowsy. Seifried is one of Nelson’s oldest wineries, founded in 1973 by Austrian-born Hermann Seifried and his Kiwi wife Agnes Seifried in the Moutere Valley. They currently farm around 160 hectares and their new winery came on-line in 1996 on Rabbit Island adjacent to their first 60-hectare vineyard that was planted in 1988. There is an emphasis upon exports (in the UK it is distributed under the Redwood label.)Importer, Robert Whale Selections, Washington, DC; tel. (202) 237-5200; fax (202) 244-4198.