2015 Erdener Prälat Riesling Auslese lange Goldkapsel Versteigerung

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Picked at 145°Oechsle, the 2015 Erdener Prälat Riesling Auslese Long Gold Capsule has a clear, fresh, mineral, grapefruit and lemon bouquet. On the palate, this is a rich, sweet and elegant TBA with an enormously vital acidity and stimulatingly fresh fruit. This amazing Auslese is a very digestible Riesling provided with great aging potential. - Stephan Reinhardt, Apr. 2017

Mosel Fine Wines: A hugely complex and incredibly pure nose of pear, pineapple, coconut and almond-infused herbs leads to a zesty, focused yet loaded palate with layers upon layers of complex scents blending exotic fruits and almond with fresher pineapple and grapefruit. The whole experience is enhanced by some superbly zesty acidity, and the finish is to die for. This is benchmark stuff from the Prälat. Bravo! 2025-2055. - Auction Guide 2016

Vinous: This auction lot represents, in Schug's words, "the more shriveled and botrytized berries, progressively picked out in the course of the Auslese harvest." Orange and anise liqueurs on the nose and on a creamy, glycerol-rich, oily palate are offset by fresh lime and orange that lend penetrating brightness and reflect the unusually high acidity, even by vintage standards, that was concentrated in the aforementioned shriveled berries. Those acids get the upper hand on a strikingly-sustained finish of rapier penetration and eye-watering sharpness. Prior to 2004, Loosen and Schug would never have rendered a Prälat Auslese remotely this energetic or fearlessly high-acid. (Being auctioned on September 16, 2016, meant that this wine was bottled a bit ahead of the other 2015 vintage Loosen Auslesen, which may partly explain its embryonic, acid-dominated showing when I last tasted it on September 19. Lest there be any confusion as to what physically constitutes a gold capsule as opposed to a “long” gold capsule, this Auslese carries the A.P. #61.) - David Schildknecht, Jun. 2017