Molitor Zeltinger Sonnenuhr Spatlese WK 2016 (750ML)

95 WA / 95 JS / 93 VM

The 2016 Riesling Zeltinger Sonnenuhr Riesling Spätlese (White Capsule) opens with beautifully ripe and elegant fruit intertwined with reductive and flinty notes with crunchy slate aromas. Silky, lush and seamless on the palate, this is a highly finessed and elegant Spätlese with stimulating balance and super fine tannin structure. It is the most elegant, balanced and perhaps also the most classic Mosel Spätlese in the dry style. The finish is clear, fresh and very salty—a crystalline and persistent Sonnenuhr of great class. - Stephan Reinhardt, Wine Advocate

Great finesse and filigree! Subtle aromas of exotic fruits and flowers, as well as a near-perfect balance of depth and delicacy that runs like a golden thread through the wine. Drink or hold. - James Suckling

Apple blossom and heliotrope share aromatic billing with unanticipated intimations of sea breeze and fresh oyster. The mouthwatering palate impression is at once creamy and animatingly juicy, rich in apple and quince but also replete with saline, alkaline and nutty oyster-flesh notes. The superbly sustained finish offers full-throttle fruit, and the mineral and floral elements are beautifully integrated if not quite as strikingly evident as in this year’s corresponding Graacher Domprobst. - David Schildknecht, Vinous Media