White Wine from Mosel Saar Ruwer

Vinous, 95 points: Picked at only marginally higher Oechsle than this year’s Goldtröpfchen Kabinett (and significantly less than the corresponding 2014), this reflects Haart’s increasing confidence that Prädikat character does not track...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 96 points: The 2015 Riesling Wehlener Klosterberg Auslese ** (Golden Capsule) is very clear and precise on the nose where concentrated lemon and grapefruit aromas intermix with piquant slate flavors. On the palate, this is a round...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 95 points: From almost 100-year-old vines in a 1,600 square meter plot (small grapes, loose berries, thicker skins), the 2014 Riesling GG Fahrlay Terrassen opens with a deep, concentrated, very complex, stony/dusty bouquet of...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 96 points: The 2015 Riesling Bernkasteler Badstube Auslese ** (Green Capsule) is clear, bright, fresh and flinty on the precise, cool and aromatic nose. The attack on the palate is fresh and piquant before the pure and crystalline...

jamessuckling.com, 97 points: In spite of the enormous concentration of dried yellow fruit flavors, this has a gracefulness and a great vitality that make it breathtaking. A spectacular Auslese to drink now, but it also has enormous aging potential...

Vinous, 94 points: Orange and orange blossom, mint and elder flower waft fragrantly from the glass. This beauty comes to the palate with infectious juiciness of orange and lime, heady inner-mouth perfume, and a seductively silken feel...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 93 points: The 2014 Maximin Grünhäuser Abtsberg Riesling Kabinett (AP #11) shows a super clear, deep and complex blue slate bouquet; this leads to a piquant and filigreed palate, with an ethereal lightness and transparency. It has a...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 99 points: The 2015 Riesling Kinheimer Hubertuslay Auslese *** (Golden Capsule) is clear, deep and complex on the nose and opens with ripe but fresh fruit aromas intermixed with herbal notes. Highly elegant, precise and finessed but...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 97 points: 97+ The 2015 Riesling Zeltinger Schlossberg Auslese *** (Golden Capsule) is clear and complex on the concentrated but precise, fresh and mineral nose. On the palate, this is a clear, fresh, piquant and salty Auslese with...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 95 points: From slate soils with calcareous parts, the 2014 Riesling Uhlen L 'VDP Grosse Lage' (picked in the lieut-dit Laubach) opens with a deep and cool, fascinating, yet still somewhat discreet and dusty/stony, herbal bouquet...