2016 Saarburger Rausch Riesling Spätlese Geltz Zilliken, Mosel-Saar-Ruwer (0,75l)

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate - 2016 Saarburger Rausch Riesling Spätlese, Geltz Zilliken

The 2016 Saarburger Rausch Riesling Spätlese (AP #3) offers a terrific bouquet of tropical fruit aromas intermixed with very fine, coolish slate and flinty aromas. Lush yet very elegant and fine on the palate, with highly delicate salinity in the finish, this is a beautiful Spätlese that reveals very fine raisin flavors and highly delicate acidity. This is a gorgeous Riesling from the Saarburger Rausch! Made with some percent of overripe berries, which gives this fabulous aroma and lush texture. Great finesse here as well. Tasted March 2018. - Stephan Reinhardt, Apr. 2018

Wine Spectator - 2016 Saarburger Rausch Riesling Spätlese, Geltz Zilliken

Complex and creamy, with ripe flavors of black currant and apple pie, this is fresh and lively because of the high acidity and mineral notes. Very expressive and focused, but displays good harmony and fine length. Drink now through 2037. 300 cases made. - Juni 2018

Mosel Fine Wines - 2016 Saarburger Rausch Riesling Spätlese, Geltz Zilliken

Harvested at a full 97° Oechsle, this reductive wine only slowly develops its beautiful bouquet of quince, yellow peach, vanilla cream and floral nuances. The wine is splendidly juicy and creamy with rich, mouth-coating flavors of tropical and honeyed fruits and the full presence of an Auslese on the palate. The finish remains elegant, being both smooth and delicate. However, this will need a good decade to fully blossom and absorb its rather high level of residual sugar. 2026-2046 - Juni 2017

Vinous - 2016 Saarburger Rausch Riesling Spätlese, Geltz Zilliken

Lime, grapefruit, white peach and papaya dominate on the nose and palate, accompanied by delightful accents of cooling mint, bittersweet iris perfume and Rausch-typical hints of smoke and stone. The combination of animatingly juicy citricity with seductively creamy texture is quite striking, and the resounding finish is bell-clear, consummately refreshing and impeccably balanced, despite harboring an amazingly high level of residual sugar. - David Schildknecht, März 2018