2014 Saarburger Rausch Riesling Spätlese Versteigerung

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Auctioned in Trier in September 2015, the 2014 Saarburger Rausch Riesling Spätlese #3 (Versteigerung) is sourced from old vines and offers concentrated and piquant plum and mango, as well as some lemon peel aromas, intertwined with smoky/flinty flavors. Nicely concentrated and juicy on the palate, this pure, clear and refreshingly piquant Spätlese is stimulating already today, but will bring great drinking pleasure for 20-30 years and more. Pineapple flavors in the aftertaste. - Stephan Reinhardt, März 2016

Vinous: This auctioned bottling features very ripe peach, mango and Persian melon accented by prickly spiciness of botrytis. A faintly oily, glycerol-rich palate assuages any sharper expressions of noble rot, but the wine finishes with unanticipated verve, penetration and focus, not to mention formidable sheer persistence. Despite its ripeness and tropicality, it boasts even higher acidity than its A.P. #4 sibling; and that reveals itself in the present wine’s sense of animation as well as its uncanny ability to cancel-out the sweetening effect of high residual sugar. - David Schildknecht, Jul. 2016