2015 Saarburger Rausch Riesling Spätlese Versteigerung

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Based on manually selected parts and berries, the 2015 (Saarburg) Rausch Riesling Spätlese (Versteigerung) AP #7 is clear and very fine on the nose, with bright fruit and fine slate aromas. Delicate and finessed on the palate, this is a remarkably elegant and weightless Spätlese with great precision and a noble piquancy in the salty, crystalline finish. This is an excellent Spätlese from the Saar. - Stephan Reinhardt, Apr. 2017

Mosel Fine Wines: This offers a gorgeous nose of cassis and minty herbs. The wine is delicately creamy yet full of life on the palate and leaves a stunning feel of herbs in the long and elegant finish. This is pure magic in the bottle! 2025-2045. - Aug. 2016

Vinous: Very ripe honeydew melon, quince and kiwi deliver an attention-getting nose and luscious palate presence, though one with a more palpable sense of extract and considerable firmness when compared with the corresponding non-auction Spätlese. I miss the herbal and mineral dimensions that lent that A.P. #8 some of its charm and complexity, but there’s no question that this auction lot (which corresponds to an entire thousand-liter fuder) finishes with imposing richness and memorable persistence. I would wait a year or two before revisiting it. - David Schildknecht, Mai 2017