2016 Rüdesheim Berg Schlossberg Riesling Q.b.A.

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2016 Rheingau Riesling Rüdesheim Berg Schlossberg has a very clear, deep, pure and flinty bouquet of bright fruit and crushed stone aromas. This is absolutely fascinating in its purity, finesse and complex elegance. Round and terribly lush on the palate, with very fine tannins and ripe, crystalline acidity, this is a highly elegant, delicate and complex Riesling that is enormously filigreed yet tensioned and long. A goddess of the greatest finesse and elegance. The sweetness, body and minerality are in perfect balance. Release date: March 2018. Tasted October 2017. - Stephan Reinhardt, Dez. 2017

Mosel Fine Wines: The 2016er Rüdesheimer Berg Schlossberg was fermented to fully dry levels (3.9 g/l of residual sugar). It develops a delicately ample even if still completely reduced nose of candied grapefruit puree, pear, laurel and, deep below, some cassis and aniseed herbs. The wine starts off on a beautifully smooth and fruity side on the palate before it gains in grip and multi-layered presence as elements of bergamot, oregano and minerals come through. The finish is delicately smooth, refined, subtle and yet loaded with great complexity and quite some presence. This stunning effort in the making will need a solid decade to fully integrate its elements. There is quite some upside if the wine retains its complex and refined side in the finish over time. 2026-2046. - Okt. 2017