2014 Volz Riesling Q.b.A. Van Volxem, Mosel-Saar-Ruwer

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate - 2014 Volz Riesling Q.b.A., Van Volxem

The 2014 Volz Riesling offers a very subtle, slightly dusty/stony yet very clear, intense and elegant bouquet, displaying yellow apples and ripe pips. Full-bodied, piquant and juicy on the palate, this is one of the finest and most convincing van Volxem Rieslings of this vintage – since there is juiciness and a certain creaminess on the palate, as well as a very long, intense and complex finish. The Volz has a very good aging potential. It's on the border of dry and off-dry, and might still be too dry for many of our readers. It's surely a wine for very advanced Riesling lovers. - Stephan Reinhardt, März 2016

Vinous - 2014 Volz Riesling Q.b.A., Van Volxem

This bottling is sourced from a prime, long-celebrated portion of the Wiltinger Braunfels now newly registered by Niewodniczanski (previous installments having been labeled with the ostensibly fantasy name “Vols,” thus sidestepping the prohibition on vineyard names other than those of the post-1971 Einzellagen). Much more open and engaging at this youthful stage than its Goldberg and Scharzhofberg counterparts, this leads with lovely and diverse bittersweet floral scents, suggestive of iris and gentian, that are then seductively liquefied on a creamy and glycerol-rich yet brightly juicy palate, where fresh lime and succulent white peach prevail. The long, luscious finish remains transparent to a multiplicity of floral and crystalline, stony, smoky, saline mineral nuances. - David Schildknecht, Jul. 2016