Markus Molitor(Haus Klosterberg) - Riesling Auslese ** Mosel-Saar-Ruwer Bernkasteler Badstube 2015 (750ml)

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Producer	Markus Molitor(Haus Klosterberg)
Country	Germany
Region	Mosel-Saar-Ruwer
Varietal	Riesling
Vintage	2015
Sku	130227
Size	750ml

Critical Acclaim

96 points Wine Advocate

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 texture with all its salts take over the regiment and carries this gorgeous, highly elegant and finessed Auslese into a very long and juicy, in fact endless finish. This is power mixed with purity, finesse and elegance. Great aging potential. (SR)

94 points James Suckling

Stunning ripeness, but also dark herbal mystery that draws you into its orbit. Long, creamy and super-elegant finish that goes on and on. Better from 2019 and has enormous potential.

93 points Vinous

Village-typical cherry and lime on the nose transform themselves into a soothingly sorbet-like, rich yet cooling palate presence tinged with mint and laced with drippingly ripe honeydew melon. Don’t be misled by its labeling: this "two-star" Auslese is no less discreet in sweetness than its green-capsule Spätlese or Kabinett counterparts. Stony, smoky and otherwise elusive mineral notes convey intriguing counterpoint on a superbly sustained finish. The wine’s acidity, like its residual sugar, is by no means obvious. But the extent to which the two check one another results in an impeccable balance as well as an animation that puts me in mind of well-wound springs beneath the wine’s surface. (DS)

David Schildknecht for Vinous on the capsule color designations: "Readers unfamiliar with Molitor’s unique labeling conventions may wish to consult [reviews] for further details, but here is a brief synopsis. Level of dryness is signified solely by the color of the wines’ labels and capsule: white labels and capsules for those that taste dry (but are more often legally halbtrocken than trocken); white labels and green capsules for wines of very discreet sweetness (some legally halbtrocken, but all of a sort that most growers would nowadays term feinherb); gold labels and capsules for wines of overt sweetness. My own convention, as an assist to readers, is to include the capsule or label color as part of each wine’s description. A wine’s weight class and ripeness of raw material is signified by the conventional Prädikat designations, which are utilized across the entire range from dry to sweet. Stars, from one to three, are also liberally utilized across Molitor’s entire range – though primarily at the level of Auslese – to signify interim levels of ripeness or (at least in the case of non-Rieslings) his winery-internal quality assessment." (09/2016)