2016 Bernkasteler Badstube Spätlese GrK
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Molitor's 2016 Riesling Bernkasteler Badstube Spätlese (Green Capsule) is ripe, intense and still yeasty on the deep and complex nose (bottled in July 2017). The wine is piquant, pure and lush on the palate, with remarkable finesse and mineral tension providing this elegant, refreshing, straightforward Spätlese a pretty dry and food-friendly style. There is beautiful grip and mineral tension in the aftertaste.
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Mosel Fine Wines
Stephan Reinhardt, Wine Advocate
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Rowan, honeysuckle, heliotrope, mint and Bing cherry mingle on a heady nose, and the palate impression – at once creamy and animatingly juicy – billows with inner-mouth perfume. The finish here is remarkable not only for sheer lusciously fruity persistence but for perpetuating the sense that one is inhaling floral perfume and cooling green herbal essences. Here is another instance among Molitor green capsule bottlings where residual sugar is ideally judged to support a prominently fruity and floral character while generating only a very discreet sense of sweetness.
This offers a refreshing nose of white peach, gooseberry, passion fruit, raspberry, mango and delicately earthy spices. The wine is beautifully playful and elegant on the medium-bodied and fabulously refined palate. The finish is elegant, playful and nicely multi-layered. This model of finesse will please lovers of off-dry Riesling which combine presence and elegance. Oct 2017, www.moselfinewines.com, Drink: 2021-2036
About the producer
Markus Molitor is now among the largest privately owned wine estates in the Mosel and also one of the best. With a focus on single-vineyard expressions, the estate produces between 80 and 90 different wines each vintage.