2019 Ockfener Bockstein Riesling Kabinett Geltz Zilliken, Mosel-Saar-Ruwer

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate - 2019 Ockfener Bockstein Riesling Kabinett, Geltz Zilliken

Zilliken's 2019 Bockstein Riesling Kabinett from Ockfen is pure, refined and slightly flinty on the nobly elegant bouquet. Enormously juicy and round on the palate, this is in fact a delicious Spätlese with an enormously stimulating, salty and well-structured finish with good grip. 8.5% alcohol. Tasted from AP 06-20 in April 2020. - Stephan Reinhardt, Aug. 2020

Mosel Fine Wines - 2019 Ockfener Bockstein Riesling Kabinett, Geltz Zilliken

The 2019er Bockstein Kabinett, as it is referred to on the consumer label, was harvested at 90° Oechsle, and was fermented to fully fruity-styled levels of residual sugar (58 g/l). It offers a gorgeous nose made of apricot puree, vineyard peach, brown sugar, elderflower, and fine spicy elements. The wine develops the smooth presence of a Spätlese on the palate. The creamy fruits and spices are nicely lifted up by some fine yet firm zest in the still a tad sweet finish. The aftertaste is all about zesty and creamy elements of melon, orange zest, floral elements and more than hinting at the wine’s complexity at maturity. This is a gorgeous and quite subtle expression of fruity-styled wine in the making. 2029-2049. - Juni 2020