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

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: 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: 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