2015 Urziger Wurzgarten Auslese (3 star) GK
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This overtly honeyed "three-star" offering leads with a nose suggesting strawberry preserves and quince jelly, but when these reemerge on the creamy, expansive palate, it is to the accompaniment of bright fresh lime and cooling green herbal essences, so that any tendency toward confitured character is delightfully counterbalanced. The finish is rich but also strikingly focused, transparent to stony nuances, and downright refreshing, a combination one seldom experiences from an Auslese, much less one from material as high in must weight and botrytis as was involved here. I suspect that with time this will have much more to say for itself.
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Stephan Reinhardt, Wine Advocate
The Wine Advocate
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The 2015 Riesling Urziger Wurzgarten Auslese *** (Golden Capsule) offers a very clear, deep, intense and complex stone fruit aroma with some very discreet toast and crushed stone flavors. Full-bodied, rich and powerful but enormously racy-piquant and mineral so that you don't taste its sweetness, this is a great, expressive terroir wine with a huge inner concentration that comes from the soils rather than dried berries. It is based on grapes with dry raisins due to perfect botrytis combined with healthy berries that deliver the tremendous freshness in this gorgeous Auslese that also reveals some fine tannins from the aging partly in small oak. Apr 2017, www.robertparker.com
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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.