Molitor Graacher Domprobst Spatlese WK 2016 (750ML)

94 WA / 94 VM / 93 JS

From deeper slate soils that deliver very aromatic fruit and crunchy slate aromas, the 2016 Riesling Graacher Domprobst Spätlese (White Capsule) is excitingly pure and smoky on the terribly fine and dark nose. This is intense, piquant and very complex on the palate but also beautifully fruity, lush and crystalline in its super fine and silky texture.The finish is pure, salty and perfectly interwoven with ripe and elegant fruit. This is a great Mosel wine from 2016, and it sells for 20 euros ex cellar. Tasted March 2018. - Stephan Reinhardt, Wine Advocate

Here is another of those gorgeously heady, florally perfumed noses that seem to abound among Molitor 2016s. Lily, rowan and heliotrope garland ripe apple and pecan, themes perfectly suited to this wine’s subtly creamy, expansive yet alcoholically buoyant palate impression. And for all of that creamy, nutty richness, the billowingly sustained finish is a model of sheer refreshment as well as of transparency to crystalline and stony nuances. - David Schildknecht, Vinous Media

Still a bit closed, but this is quite a bold dry Mosel riesling. With that said, it still only weighs in at 11% in terms of alcoholic content and shows a certain delicacy at the finish as a result. Better from 2019, but it has many years ahead of it after that. - James Suckling