Rausch Riesling Kabinett – Zilliken Winery from the Saar
The Zilliken Rausch Riesling Kabinett 2018 is a fruit-sweet, lean Riesling from the VDP.GROSSE LAGE (Grand Cru site) Saarburger Rausch. This finely fruity, juicy and invigorating Saar Riesling from Weingut Forstmeister Geltz Zilliken is characterized by a lively interplay between fruit and acidity. The Zilliken Rausch Riesling Kabinett 2018 shows a wonderfully complex aroma and taste, with juicy peach, ripe apricot, lemon confit, grapefruit zest, fine herbal spice, and wet slate.
Zilliken Riesling Kabinett 2018 – a wine and its values
- 8.0% Alcohol
- 58.5 g/l Residual Sugar
- 7.4 g/l Acidity
Rausch – awarded
- 90 points Mosel Fine Wines
- 88 Eichelmann
- 91 Vinum
- 92 Gault Millau
- 91 Falstaff
- 92 Robert Parker
- 92+ John Gilman
The long finish reveals the concentration of the Zilliken Riesling Kabinett. On the palate, it feels weightless. With a moderate alcohol content of 8%, it is an ideal companion to light dishes with chicken or fish, to sushi or scallops, or to spicy Asian cuisine. Even if the Zilliken Riesling Kabinett is already enchanting when young, it only shows its full potential after 5-10 years of bottle aging. Try it out, we also have aged Rieslings from Weingut Forstmeister Geltz Zilliken stored.
By the way, our cellar is cooled in summer and heated in winter by a geothermal heat pump powered by a photovoltaic system, so that the wine can mature optimally. Gault Millau awarded the Zilliken Rausch Riesling Kabinett 2011 92 points and the 2017 vintage 93 points, naming them both the best Kabinett of the year!
The 2018 vintage on the Saar
2018 was a summer of the century in Germany with countless hours of sunshine. A sunny summer without great heat, which did not cause drought stress for the vines, which enjoyed abundant rain in May. Due to the continuously sunny weather, the harvest began unusually early, on September 24th. "Rarely have the vineyards been so full of golden grapes," Dorothee Zilliken tells us. The fantastic autumn enabled the individual berry selection for noble sweet Rieslings. The dry Rieslings from 2018 are juicy, mineral, and accessible – tropical aromas paired with classic Saar elegance.