Winemaker Notes
Schafer-Frohlich Felseneck Riesling Kabinett is a golden yellow color with green hints. Lively acidity and fine balanced.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
Initial notes of smoke and earth subside with aeration revealing an intensely fruity palate full of juicy white-peach, guava and yellow-cherry flavors. Delightfully off dry yet puckering in style, it's a penetrating wine nuanced by a fresh mineral finish. It will improve till 2026, hold further.
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James Suckling
The hint of funk and the spirtz add excitement to this light and succulent riesling that's brimming with lemony freshness. Drink now or hold.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
From a steep, terraced, southwest-facing plot on weathered phyllite slate, the 2016 Nahe Riesling Felseneck Kabinett was picked early at 83° Oechsle. It is a lovely, clear, piquant and crystalline Kabinett with lush fruit and a long, stimulatingly salty finish. It is light, fresh and buoyant, a highly elegant and filigreed Kabinett classic at its best. It is ripe but nevertheless vital and piquant. The finish is long and aromatic. A great Kabinett from the Nahe.
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Wine Spectator
Intense, electric acidity lends firmness to this refreshing and complex version. Flavors of apple, lanolin and quince are sprinkled with smoked sea salt for added charm. Maintains focus and shows depth and harmony on the persistent finish.
Riesling possesses a remarkable ability to reflect the character of wherever it is grown while still maintaining its identity. A regal variety of incredible purity and precision, this versatile grape can be just as enjoyable dry or sweet, young or old, still or sparkling and can age longer than nearly any other white variety. Somm Secret—Given how difficult it is to discern the level of sweetness in a Riesling from the label, here are some clues to find the dry ones. First, look for the world “trocken.” (“Halbtrocken” or “feinherb” mean off-dry.) Also a higher abv usually indicates a drier Riesling.
GZT483258_2016 Item# 806965