2017 Wiltingen GOTTESFUß Alte Reben Riesling Grosses Gewächs Q.b.A. trocken Van Volxem, Mosel-Saar-Ruwer

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate - 2017 Wiltingen GOTTESFUß Alte Reben Riesling Grosses Gewächs Q.b.A. trocken, Van Volxem

The 2017 Wiltinger Gottesfuss Riesling Alte Reben GG is deep, intense and concentrated yet elegant and even fine on the slatey-flinty, lemon-fresh and herbal nose. Round and lush on the silky-textured and crystalline palate, this is a concentrated, powerful yet pure and enormously long and complex dry Riesling that ranks among the finest of the 2017 vintage in the Mosel. It's challenging right now, but in 10 or 20 years this should be a stunner. It is endlessly salty, with great complexity and mineral tension. Tasted from AP #19 in June 2019. - Stephan Reinhardt, Aug. 2019

Mosel Fine Wines - 2017 Wiltingen GOTTESFUß Alte Reben Riesling Grosses Gewächs Q.b.A. trocken, Van Volxem

The 2017er Wiltinger Gottesfuss Alte Reben GG is made from very old un-grafted vines. This offers a gorgeous even if completely reduced nose of herbs, oak spices and some discreet notes of lemon, pear and greengage. The wine is nicely smooth, yet fully racy on the palate and leaves a beautifully clean and pure feel of herbs and spices in the finish. The after-taste is all about intense, laser-sharp precision. This gorgeous wine has quite some upside potential. 2022-2037. - Okt. 2018

Vinous - 2017 Wiltingen GOTTESFUß Alte Reben Riesling Grosses Gewächs Q.b.A. trocken, Van Volxem

Gentian, iris, mint, black tea, white peach and grapefruit are joined by a musky, elusively animal element for yet another spellbinding aromatic performance from these 120-year-old vines. There is a sense of pithy density and underlying firmness, but also a hint of silken texture, with bitter elements suggesting nutty concentration and sufficiently buffered to avoid outright austerity or jarring aggressiveness. The finish is both gripping and mouth-shaking, conveying a sense of pent-up energy being released, while leaving behind nearly ineradicable stony, ashen, smoky and glowingly piquant and trigeminal traces. - David Schildknecht, Okt. 2019