2003 Zilliken (Forstmeister Geltz) Saarburger Rausch Riesling Auslese

Community Tasting Notes (16) Avg Score: 90.4 points

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  3/28/2024 - Echinosum Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Much as I found it and enjoyed it a few years ago.
  
  So many other tasting notes are saying it has insufficient acid. Yet I perceive a truly delicious thread of limey acid through it, and was at one point asking myself, is this a bit too much acid? But that was only a moment. I think I am more sensitive to acid than many tasters, and don't like very acidic wines, like young South Australian rieslings that are too much for me. There certainly is acid there in substantial quantity, but it is nicely ripe. And then there's a note from a taster I respect, saying it is light for an auslese. Yet I perceive it as having the weighty ripeness of the year. I have had many lighter ausleses. Yes, there are weightier ones, but they come from Rheingau and Nahe, not usually the Mosel and Saar, the region of German wines I have drunk much the greatest quantity from.
  
  I did find this wine disappointing when it was younger, sweet and simple, and maybe my sub-ideal storage conditions have helped move it along to a greater extent than other people. But the last bottle I opened was in 2020, and I don't find it much changed.
  
  It is more tropical than a typical auslese, from that very hot 2003. But now we have had a number of hotter years, notably 2022, I wonder how they will come out? Or are the vineyard managers and winemakers better prepared for hot year wines and making something rather different?
  
  Meanwhile, I found a parcel of the 2003 spatlese going very cheap a couple of years ago, and am still drinking, and I think that is still great.

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  12/11/2023 - Tobinski Does not like this wine:

  OMG #105 (Ann Arbor, MI): Sweetness was over the top here, without acidity for balance, making this tough to drink. The vintage won.

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  10/22/2022 - RED AND BLACK Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Very light Auslese, good nose. Not very acidic now, this can be good for drinking some sweet light wine on its own or with a light dessert but not a food wine for me in this stage (have not tried it younger though)

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  5/18/2022 - MalcolmV Likes this wine:

  40 years of Wine Tasting at DWS with John Pudduck and Graham Archer (Dulwich Wine Society): Lovely dried pineapple with honeyed botrytis notes.
  Very concentrated and the sugar is perfectly balanced by the acidity. (£36)
  Quality:4/4
  Price:2/3
  X factor/interest:2/3
  Total: 8/10

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  1/2/2022 - Radders12345 wrote: 91 Points

  Relatively pale golden colour. Nose of custard apple, quince, a hint of salinity.
  
  A really concentrated palate delivers the quince, tinned pineapple and Meyer lemon.
  
  Mouthfeel is really luscious but it lacks the full bite of acidity at the end to balance it out, it’s just a little too easy going. Delicious for sure still

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