2015 Van Volxem Wiltinger Gottesfuss Riesling Großes Gewächs Alte Reben

Community Tasting Notes (7) Avg Score: 93.9 points

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  10/17/2023 - ziggecg Likes this wine: 95 Points

  This wine is in such a sweet spot atm. Laser sharp acidity, minerality and prominent fruit is being accompanied by waxy notes and petroleum in the glass. Technically a GG, but according to Roman they didn’t use that designation on their wines until 2016 vintage. Drink within 3 years.

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  11/16/2022 - Invest wrote: 95 Points

  One year later....
  
  On the nose flavors of restrained pineapple and apricot, some mild curry.
  
  On the palate restrained fresh tropical fruit, very defined ripe pineapple, touch walnut, apricot, even some white fruit flavors. Cool, young, high precision, animating, lovely balance with the superficial sweetness more or less completely disappeared.
  
  Love it, M-S-R 2015 rocks, looking forward to 2021!

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  11/11/2021 - Invest wrote: 95 Points

  Bottle opened about 1h before consumption.
  
  12% Alc., clear pale yellow color.
  
  Nose: Ripe apricot fruit, fine honey, some minerality, a touch lemon, imo still a bit closed. Smells typical for a Riesling on the sweet side, but a very very good one with sufficient acidity.
  
  Palate: The first impression reminds of an outstanding sweet wine. But this is analytical still dry although hardly less than 9 gr. residual sugar. Richness and yellow fruit, honey aromas you can only taste in the very best sweet wines, nonetheless lively with perfect natural acid leading to an animating not tiresome drinking flow, already good complexity. Riesling at its best on the semi dry level. Real class, will surely perform on this level at least 10 more years and has imo everything to improve even further. Perfect together with spicy Asian food.
  
  2015 is considered to be one of the vintages of the century at the Moselle Saar and Ruwer region with high levels of ripeness, extract and acidity.

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  12/7/2019 - forceberry wrote: 94 Points

  An old-vine Riesling from the VDP.Grosse Lage Wiltinger Gottesfuss and, according to the back label, this is a GG Riesling. The vineyard owned by Van Volxem is planted 120 years ago and the low-yielding vines are ungrafted, growing on their own roots. Tasted in the Van Volxem 2015 tasting. 12% alcohol.
  
  Youthful lime-green color. Sweet, somewhat primary and not particularly expressive nose with restrained aromas of ripe pear, some mineral notes of chalk dust, a little bit of honeyed richness, light candied gummi bear tones, spicy notes of white pepper and dried herbs and a reductive touch of gunpowder smoke. The wine is moderately full-bodied, powerful and quite concentrated on the palate with intense flavors of steely minerality, nectarine, some tangy salinity, light notes of beeswax, a little bit of spicy red apple, a reductive hint of smoke and a touch of lemon marmalade. Moderately high acidity. The finish is ripe, long and intense with youthful flavors of ripe citrus fruits, tart green apples, some herbal spice, a little bit of apple peel bitterness, a hint of fresh and crunchy peach and a touch of honeycomb.
  
  An impressive and remarkably concentrated powerhouse that feels a bit closed down at the moment. The overall feel is very muscular with some real tactile feel to it, but there's a slightest hint of reduction that makes the wine to hold back a little. At the moment the equally impressive Van Volxem Volz 2015 performs better than this, but only by a small margin. I can imagine this wine will turn out to be better of these two with enough cellaring, but most likely it will take some time. Let this wine wait - it is certainly built for the long haul. Priced according to its quality at 38€.

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  7/17/2019 - DrZett wrote: 92 Points

  Quite complex body - one of the better Gottesfuss I tried, still very youthful, needs more time.

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