2015 Saarburger Rausch Riesling Kabinett Geltz Zilliken, Mosel-Saar-Ruwer

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate - 2015 Saarburger Rausch Riesling Kabinett, Geltz Zilliken

The 2015 (Saarburg) Rausch Riesling Kabinett is clear, intense and precise, yet fine on the nose, provided with fully ripe fruit aromas. Very delicate, fine and salty on the palate, this is a light and very elegant, lovely, piquant and well-balanced Rausch. There is stimulating salinity and finesse in the finish. - Stephan Reinhardt, Apr. 2017

Mosel Fine Wines - 2015 Saarburger Rausch Riesling Kabinett, Geltz Zilliken

This opens up to delicately silky scents of white peach, melon and a hint of coconut, all pepped up by some passion fruit and minty herbs. The wine is driven by pear and herbs on the palate and the finish is gorgeously mouth-watering as zesty acidity comes through and brings focus into the finish. The after-taste is loaded with minerals and zesty fruits, and simply oozes elegance. What a beautiful Spätlese-styled wine. 2025-2040. - Jun. 2016

Vinous - 2015 Saarburger Rausch Riesling Kabinett, Geltz Zilliken

Mango and muskmelon on the nose announce that this will be ripe-tasting Kabinett even by Zilliken standards. But a cooling, juicy surge of fresh lime nicely tempers the tropical and musky fruitiness on a creamy, buoyant palate. As so often at this address, high (here, 69 grams!) residual sugar is checked almost magically for an impression of measured and ideally supportive sweetness on the lusciously lingering, mouthwateringly salt-tinged finish. This bottling (setting aside their “Butterfly”) is where the volume lies in the Zillikens’ 2015 collection, representing as it does a dozen hundred-liter Mosel fuders. - David Schildknecht, Mai 2017