98 points Stephen Reinhardt (Wine Advocate): "The 2017 Pündericher Marienburg Riesling Raffes is the essence of gray slate. Bright in color and flavors but also intense and intermixed with lemon-fresh stony notes, this is a concentrated yet pure, fresh and finessed, highly intense and refined Riesling with great length and an endless finish. This is a powerful but Auslese-styled Riesling with concentration, finesse and lots of power but no alcoholic impression. The wine was bottled with 13% alcohol and almost nine grams of residual sugar. Tasted March 2019. Drink: 2020-2050. (Jun 2019)"
95 points CellarTracker.com community score.
94 points Mosel Fine Wines: "AP: 02 19. The 2017er Marienburg Raffes, as it is referred to on the main part of the label, is made from late-harvested fruit in a prime terraced part of the grey-slated Falkenlay sector. It underwent an extended maturation on its lees (hence the late AP number) and was only commercially in September 2019, i.e. two years after the harvest. It offers a beautiful nose of flint stone, gooseberry, melon, apple tart, minerals, and fine floral elements, all wrapped into some gorgeous scents of smoky slate. The wine develops a beautiful creamy-zesty tension on the slightly ample but gorgeously intense and refined palate, and leaves a stunning feel creamy pear, floral elements, lemongrass, and minty herbs in the long and beautifully multi-layered finish. This is a gorgeously intense expression of dry Riesling in the making. 2022-2032. (Oct 2019)"
95 points CellarTracker.com community score.
94 points Mosel Fine Wines: "AP: 02 19. The 2017er Marienburg Raffes, as it is referred to on the main part of the label, is made from late-harvested fruit in a prime terraced part of the grey-slated Falkenlay sector. It underwent an extended maturation on its lees (hence the late AP number) and was only commercially in September 2019, i.e. two years after the harvest. It offers a beautiful nose of flint stone, gooseberry, melon, apple tart, minerals, and fine floral elements, all wrapped into some gorgeous scents of smoky slate. The wine develops a beautiful creamy-zesty tension on the slightly ample but gorgeously intense and refined palate, and leaves a stunning feel creamy pear, floral elements, lemongrass, and minty herbs in the long and beautifully multi-layered finish. This is a gorgeously intense expression of dry Riesling in the making. 2022-2032. (Oct 2019)"
| Product SKU | 338266 |
| Producer | Clemens Busch |
| Country | Germany |
| Region | Mosel |
| Varietal | Riesling |
| Designation | Grosses Gewachs|Trocken / Dry |
| Vintage | 2017 |
| Size | 750ml |
| Color | White |
| ABV | 13.0% |
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