2015 Burg Layer Schlossberg Riesling Kabinett Versteigerung Diel Burg Layen, Nahe (0,75l)

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate - 2015 Burg Layer Schlossberg Riesling Kabinett Versteigerung, Diel Burg Layen

The 2015 Burg Layer Schlossberg Riesling Kabinett is deep, ripe and rich and offers flinty aromas and enormous delicate slate flavors. Intense and aromatic on the palate, this is a juicy, round and piquant Riesling with rich sweetness but also good acidity. - Stephan Reinhardt, Dez. 2016

Vinous - 2015 Burg Layer Schlossberg Riesling Kabinett Versteigerung, Diel Burg Layen

This auctioned bottling, replete with a lovely reproduction of the label with Gothic lettering regularly used for Schlossgut Diel wines under the regimen of Caroline Diel’s grandfather, represents another successful recent attempt to enhance the prestige of the Kabinett category, by that meaning a genuinely delicate Riesling harvested at modest must weight. Here alcohol, at 7.5%, is a half point lower even than in this year’s only other Diel Kabinett, the Goldloch. Diel shares with Julian Haart, Kais Schätzel and other prominent proponents of Kabinett a belief desire to pick at must weights only in the low to mid 80s Oechsle, so residual sugar here is not as high as the wine’s low alcohol might have led one to anticipate, and it’s adeptly integrated. Shared, too, is a belief that old vines are best able to achieve complex and sufficiently concentrated flavors under those conditions. White peach and Persian melon are wreathed in wisteria for a heady nose and on a luscious, subtly creamy yet feather-light palate. This finishes with wafting length, a model of polish and delicacy but boasting impressive sheer flavor concentration. (It was raised entirely in tank.) - David Schildknecht, Nov. 2017