2010 Bernkasteler Badstube Riesling Auslese Goldkapsel

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Katharina Prüm seeks to assure me that a 2010 Bernkasteler Badstube Auslese gold capsule represents her family’s first-ever Badstube bottling of that designation. As with the corresponding Zeltinger, she says “this was simply too ripe to call it merely ‘Auslese.’” There is brown spice pungency here more pronouncedly than one expects to encounter in Mosel Riesling which – when allied to chewy apple and pear skin as well as lemon and lime zest – engenders enormous invigoration in a wine whose brightly juicy citricity and sense of mineral impingement as it is serve for vibratory, near-electric intensity and finishing persistence. This doesn’t approach the refinement, intricacy, or seductive allure of the corresponding Zeltinger Sonnenuhr, but taken on its own terms represents a memorable achievement almost sure to remain robust for close to a half century. - David Schildknecht, Dez. 2011

Mosel Fine Wines: The 2010er Bernkasteler Badstube Riesling Auslese GK is still pretty much restrained, reductive, and almost non-saying when poured out of the bottle. After some airing in the glass, it unfolds a delicious and elegant nose of aniseed herbs, almond pastry, elderflower, cassis, and hints of honeyed peach. The wine proves packed with intense yet pure honeyed flavors enhanced by a great sense of ripe acidity on the superbly refined palate. It leaves one with a gorgeously backward but subtle feel of zest and creaminess in the very long and elegant finish. This wine is still not ready and will need another decade to fully shine. 2030-2050. - Apr. 2020