95/100 Punkte Falstaff 2016/17
Mittleres Gelb, Silberreflexe. Reife Grapefruitnuancen, etwas Cassis, dunkle Mineralität, Anklänge von Steinobst und Pfefferminze. Stoffig, hochelegant, wunderbar balanciert, weiße Frucht, finessenreiche Säurestruktur, verfügt über sehr gute Länge, bereits zugänglich, verfügt über großes weiteres Reifepotenzial

94/100 Punkte Falstaff Weinguide 2017/18
Leuchtendes Gelbgrün, Silberreflexe. Feine Grapefruitzesten, reife gelbe Kernobstnuancen, ein Hauch von Reduktion, kräuterwürzige Nuancen. Kernig, zart nach weißer Tropenfrucht, straffe Textur, finessenreich strukturiert, mineralische und anhaltend, sicheres Reifepotenzial.

92+/100 Punkte Robert Parker August 2017
From chalky marl soils and the warmest vineyard of the family (just 5 kilometers west of the domaine), the 2015 Sulz Morillon was fermented in 1,000-liter and 228-liter barrels. It offers a clear, fresh and aromatic bouquet with coolish earthy and lemon peel flavors and a hint of smoke. Very elegant and fresh on the palate, with piquant acidity and a crispy phenol structure, this is a full-bodied and persistent Chardonnay of remarkable elegance and powerful juiciness. The tannins are fine but grippy, and the aftertaste is chalky, aromatic and very long. I tasted this wine in May 2017 from a bottle that was filled the same day (LO 80517), whereas two-thirds of the production still remains in stainless steel.

94/100 Punkte Robert Parker Apr 2016
From 30-year-old vines, fermented for one year in small barrels and aged for another six months in stainless steel (without the addition of sulfur), the 2013 Morillon Zieregg was bottled unfiltered in July 2015; it opens pure and mineral on the nose, and reflects its great shell limestone terroir in 450 meters altitude, with floral and lemon aromas. Compared to the corresponding Zieregg Weissburgunder (Pinot Blanc), this Morillon (Chardonnay) seems leaner and straighter, but is very intense and compact, well structured and powerful. The finish is long and grippy, a bit austere, but full of tension and potential. There is a great finesse and salivating salinity in this wine that is surely on the quality level of the Zieregg Sauvignons. Keep this "Grosse STK Lage" cru for another five to 15 years and don't miss to try it.

95/100 Punkte Falstaff Weinguide 2017/18
Leuchtendes Gelbgrün, Silberreflexe. Ungemein facettenreiches und frisch angelegtes Bukett, Nuancen von Wiesenkräutern und gelber Tropenfrucht, ein Hauch von Mandarinenzesten, florale Nuancen. Straff, feine weiße Frucht, lebendige Säurestruktur, mineralisch-zitroniger Touch im Finale, rassige Stilistik.

93-94/100 Punkte Robert Parker August 2017
The golden-yewllow colored 2015 Zieregg Morillon comes from Muschelkalk soils with a thicker layer of brown soil. The wine opens with a clear, intense and aromatic bouquet of perfectly ripe, yellow-fleshed fruits intermixed with crushed rocks and lemon juice. Round and very elegant on the palate, this is a rich, full-bodied and juicy Zieregg with a mouthful of fruit, fine acidity, firm tannins and a lingering finish. It is still a bit hard and tannic in the finish, but this will soften over the time. The wine is succulent, powerful and big and needs this structure. It has more flesh on the bones compared to the more mineral and pure Weissburgunder form the very stony part of the Zieregg. Tasted at the domaine in May 2017.

94+/100 Punkte Robert Parker October 31, 2018
The 2016 Ried Zieregg Morillon is from the oldest, southwest-facing part of the cru and was planted by Manfred Tement in the early 1980s on coral limestone. Today the vineyard is so well balanced that the yields are almost never reduced and the grapes are picked in just a single day. In 2016, the loss due to frost was "just" 50% (compared to 85% in Sulz), and the grapes came only from the very first shoots, which resulted in a long vegetation period. The 2016 includes one barrel of Pinot Blanc (10%) and opens pure, fine and fresh on the nose, with beautiful chalky notes and perfectly ripe fruit aromas. On the palate, this is a pure, vital and tensioned wine with great elegance, grip and lots of (almost peppery) spices and fine tannins. The 2016 has remarkable finesse and a persistent, citrus-fresh finish that reveals endless energy, purity and salinity. This is like a top Côte des Blancs Champagne without bubbles. There are lemon and c

18/20 Punkte Vinum Mai 2019

95/100 Punkte Falstaff Weinguide 2016/17
Mittleres Gelb, Silberreflexe. Mit einem feinen Anklang von Anis unterlegte Noten von Cassis und Blütenhonig, Nuancen von Mandarinenzesten, facettenreiches Bukett. Komplex, sehr gut eingebundene 7 Gramm Restzucker, die von einer lebendigen Säurestruktur gekontert werden, feiner Honigtouch im Nachhall, ein außerordentlicher Wein mit großen Perspektiven.

94/100 Punkte Robert Parker April 2016
Selected in the best plot of the Zieregg and only in great vintages, the 2012 Sauvignon Blanc Zieregg Vinothek Reserve displays a very clear and pure bouquet with lemon flavors. This fascinating nose seems to be delivered on a perfumed stone plate. Pure perfume, no eau de toilette, of course. The palate is the extension of the nose, although the finish reveals a sweetish and charming juiciness that takes away a bit of the purity - which I like too much, but many readers might find too intellectual or not sensual enough. Ripe and cooked/baked white fruits (apples) intertwine with mineral flavors on the highly elegant palate, which finishes with verve, salt, and ripe and concentrated fruit flavors. This is doubtlessly great wine and there is no Sauvignon I know on planet wine that is comparable to this Zieregg. And that's a probably the greatest compliment I can give to this extraordinary wine.

97/100 Punkte Falstaff Weinguide 2018/19
Mittleres Grüngelb, Silberreflexe. Feine gelbe Fruchtnuancen, ein Hauch von Nougat unterlegt, reife Cassisnoten, zart nach Kapstachelbeeren, facettenreiches Bukett. Kraftvoll, stoffig, feine kalkige Mineralität, angenehme Fruchtsüße, lebendige Säurestruktur, ein komplexer Speisenbegleiter, große Länge, ein Wein mit burgundischen Dimensionen, feine Tropenfrucht im Rückgeschmack.

97+/100 Punkte Robert Parker, October 2018
From a small parcel (seven rows) that's very steep and shallow, the 2015 Ried Zieregg Vinothek Reserve is made with highly concentrated grapes that rarely ferment to dry#in 2015, it fermented down to five grams per liter. Bottled in May 2018, this is a powerful, concentrated, beautifully round and balanced 2015 full of grip and tension, with fine tannins and intense, lush if not hedonistic fruit. The finish is enormous, very long and full of finesse and tension.

92/100 Punkte Falstaff Weinguide 2019/20

94/100 Punkte Falstaff Weinguide 2015/16
Mittleres Gelbgrün, Silberreflexe. Tabakig, frische Kräuter, ein Hauch von Orangenzesten, dunkle Würze, mineralischer Anklang. Saftig, weiße Frucht, frisch und salzig, dunkle Beeren im Abgang, zitroniger Touch, animierend, mit sicherem Reifepotenzial ausgestattet.

93/100 Punkte Robert Parker August 31, 2017
The 2015 Grassnitzberg Sauvignon Blanc#marketed as premier cru (1STK)#has an intense citrus color and opens with a dense, aromatic bouquet that intermixes ripe and concentrated lemon (zest) aromas with flavors of crushed stones. Very complex and promising! Full-bodied, rich and round on the palate, this is a dense, well structured and expressive Sauvignon Blanc with reduced fruit aromatics but a beautiful sur-lie texture from the long lees aging. The wine is highly elegant and finessed and has a hidden complexity that is expressed through a persistent mineral taste and structure that comes with grip#like a river transporting rolling stones over your palate. This is a great and elegant wine that can compete with the finest Sancerres. It comes from shell limestone soils and a warm, protected terroir whose hillside faces south/southeast.

94/100 Punkte Falstaff Weinguide 2016/17
Mittleres Gelbgrün, Silberreflexe. Rauchig-kräuterwürzig unterlegte weiße Tropenfrucht, zart rotbeerige Nuancen, frische Mandarinenzesten. Saftig, gelbe Frucht, angenehme Extraktsüße, druckvolle Textur, feiner Säurebogen, bleibt gut haften, mineralischer Nachhall, würziger Rückgeschmack.

93/100 Punkte Robert Parker August 31, 2017
The 2015 Grassnitzberg Sauvignon Blanc#marketed as premier cru (1STK)#has an intense citrus color and opens with a dense, aromatic bouquet that intermixes ripe and concentrated lemon (zest) aromas with flavors of crushed stones. Very complex and promising! Full-bodied, rich and round on the palate, this is a dense, well structured and expressive Sauvignon Blanc with reduced fruit aromatics but a beautiful sur-lie texture from the long lees aging. The wine is highly elegant and finessed and has a hidden complexity that is expressed through a persistent mineral taste and structure that comes with grip#like a river transporting rolling stones over your palate. This is a great and elegant wine that can compete with the finest Sancerres. It comes from shell limestone soils and a warm, protected terroir whose hillside faces south/southeast.

94/100 Punkte Falstaff Weinguide 2018/19
Mittleres Gelbgrün, Silberreflexe. Feine Cassisanklänge, ein Hauch von Grapefruit und reifen Stachelbeeren, helles, kühles Bukett. Straff, weißer Apfel, feine Extraktsüße, eingebundene Säurestruktur, angenehmer Zitrustouch, mineralisch und anhaftend, salziger Nachhall.

94/100 Punkte Robert Parker October 2018
From the family's very first vineyard, which was cultivated by Armin Tement's grandparents, the 2016 Ried Grassnitzberg Sauvignon Blanc is pure, fresh and coolish on the nose. Since Tement gives this the same amount of attention as the Zieregg, the quality continues to rise from year to year. The 2016 was fermented and aged for one year in 25-year-old 3,000- and 4,000-liter oak barrels and spent another two months in stainless steel. The nose is just beautiful in its coolish, leafy, refreshing, greenish and mineral character (pure coral chalk), with white currant and floral aromas. On the palate, this is a very elegant wine with salt, grip and tension, reminding me of a fine Sancerre (from the Clos de Beaujeu perhaps). In a blind tasting, I would guess without a doubt it was a Sancerre. The finish is pure, fresh and salty, revealing great elegance and finesse. Tasted June 2018.

18/20 Punkte Schweizerische Weinzeitung April 2020

95/100 Punkte Falstaff Weinguide 2019/20

95+/100 Punkte Robert Parker Oct 2019
Bottled in February 2019, the 2017 Ried Grassnitzberg Sauvignon Blanc is from Tement's coolest vineyard, where Manfred Tement started the Sauvignon Blanc revolution in South Styria (when the grape was called Muscat-Sylvaner and had a very bad image). The nose is impressive in its deep, pure, fresh and complex, tightly knit generosity that reveals a coolish lime and lemon bouquet interwoven with flinty notes of crushed limestone rocks and even charming floral notes, white cassis, melissa, stinging nettle and green tea aromas. Full-bodied, round and highly finessed, with a coolish, seamless silky texture and a firm, persistently salty and crunchy-crystalline structure, this is a great and expressive Grassnitzberg that has never been better, more complex and spellbinding. The 2017 already shows its class, but you would waste the very best if you drank it too soon. This is a great, endlessly salty and tensioned Sauvignon Blanc with challenging but

95/100 Punkte Falstaff Weinguide 2019/20

95+/100 Punkte Robert Parker Oct 2019
Bottled in February 2019, the 2017 Ried Grassnitzberg Sauvignon Blanc is from Tement's coolest vineyard, where Manfred Tement started the Sauvignon Blanc revolution in South Styria (when the grape was called Muscat-Sylvaner and had a very bad image). The nose is impressive in its deep, pure, fresh and complex, tightly knit generosity that reveals a coolish lime and lemon bouquet interwoven with flinty notes of crushed limestone rocks and even charming floral notes, white cassis, melissa, stinging nettle and green tea aromas. Full-bodied, round and highly finessed, with a coolish, seamless silky texture and a firm, persistently salty and crunchy-crystalline structure, this is a great and expressive Grassnitzberg that has never been better, more complex and spellbinding. The 2017 already shows its class, but you would waste the very best if you drank it too soon. This is a great, endlessly salty and tensioned Sauvignon Blanc with challenging but

94/100 Punkte Falstaff Weinguide 2018/19
Mittleres Gelbgrün, Silberreflexe. Feine Cassisanklänge, ein Hauch von Grapefruit und reifen Stachelbeeren, helles, kühles Bukett. Straff, weißer Apfel, feine Extraktsüße, eingebundene Säurestruktur, angenehmer Zitrustouch, mineralisch und anhaftend, salziger Nachhall.

94/100 Punkte Robert Parker October 2018
From the family's very first vineyard, which was cultivated by Armin Tement's grandparents, the 2016 Ried Grassnitzberg Sauvignon Blanc is pure, fresh and coolish on the nose. Since Tement gives this the same amount of attention as the Zieregg, the quality continues to rise from year to year. The 2016 was fermented and aged for one year in 25-year-old 3,000- and 4,000-liter oak barrels and spent another two months in stainless steel. The nose is just beautiful in its coolish, leafy, refreshing, greenish and mineral character (pure coral chalk), with white currant and floral aromas. On the palate, this is a very elegant wine with salt, grip and tension, reminding me of a fine Sancerre (from the Clos de Beaujeu perhaps). In a blind tasting, I would guess without a doubt it was a Sancerre. The finish is pure, fresh and salty, revealing great elegance and finesse. Tasted June 2018.

18/20 Punkte Schweizerische Weinzeitung April 2020

95/100 Punkte Falstaff Weinguide 2019/20

95+/100 Punkte Robert Parker Oct 2019
Bottled in February 2019, the 2017 Ried Grassnitzberg Sauvignon Blanc is from Tement's coolest vineyard, where Manfred Tement started the Sauvignon Blanc revolution in South Styria (when the grape was called Muscat-Sylvaner and had a very bad image). The nose is impressive in its deep, pure, fresh and complex, tightly knit generosity that reveals a coolish lime and lemon bouquet interwoven with flinty notes of crushed limestone rocks and even charming floral notes, white cassis, melissa, stinging nettle and green tea aromas. Full-bodied, round and highly finessed, with a coolish, seamless silky texture and a firm, persistently salty and crunchy-crystalline structure, this is a great and expressive Grassnitzberg that has never been better, more complex and spellbinding. The 2017 already shows its class, but you would waste the very best if you drank it too soon. This is a great, endlessly salty and tensioned Sauvignon Blanc with challenging but

95/100 Punkte Falstaff Weinguide 2019/20

95+/100 Punkte Robert Parker Oct 2019
Bottled in February 2019, the 2017 Ried Grassnitzberg Sauvignon Blanc is from Tement's coolest vineyard, where Manfred Tement started the Sauvignon Blanc revolution in South Styria (when the grape was called Muscat-Sylvaner and had a very bad image). The nose is impressive in its deep, pure, fresh and complex, tightly knit generosity that reveals a coolish lime and lemon bouquet interwoven with flinty notes of crushed limestone rocks and even charming floral notes, white cassis, melissa, stinging nettle and green tea aromas. Full-bodied, round and highly finessed, with a coolish, seamless silky texture and a firm, persistently salty and crunchy-crystalline structure, this is a great and expressive Grassnitzberg that has never been better, more complex and spellbinding. The 2017 already shows its class, but you would waste the very best if you drank it too soon. This is a great, endlessly salty and tensioned Sauvignon Blanc with challenging but

95/100 Punkte Falstaff Weinguide 2019/20

95+/100 Punkte Robert Parker Oct 2019
Bottled in February 2019, the 2017 Ried Grassnitzberg Sauvignon Blanc is from Tement's coolest vineyard, where Manfred Tement started the Sauvignon Blanc revolution in South Styria (when the grape was called Muscat-Sylvaner and had a very bad image). The nose is impressive in its deep, pure, fresh and complex, tightly knit generosity that reveals a coolish lime and lemon bouquet interwoven with flinty notes of crushed limestone rocks and even charming floral notes, white cassis, melissa, stinging nettle and green tea aromas. Full-bodied, round and highly finessed, with a coolish, seamless silky texture and a firm, persistently salty and crunchy-crystalline structure, this is a great and expressive Grassnitzberg that has never been better, more complex and spellbinding. The 2017 already shows its class, but you would waste the very best if you drank it too soon. This is a great, endlessly salty and tensioned Sauvignon Blanc with challenging but

95/100 Punkte Falstaff Weinguide 2014/15

18/20 Punkte Vinum April 2015
Die Muschelkalkböden zusammen mit der warmen, exponierten Südwestlage der Ried Zieregg sind ein besonderes Terroir für Sauvignon Blanc. Mit gestaffelter Lese, dem Ausbau im grossen Holzfass und dem 18-monatigen Verbleib auf der Feinhefe schafft Tement die perfekte Harmonie zwischen Frische und Kraft: Klare Aromatik mit Noten von Yuzu, Mandelbebäck und einem Hauch von nassem Stein. Im Ansatz federleicht, schwebt beinahe über die Zunge, dennoch saftige, zupackende Säure, wunderbar lang mit kreidiger Struktur, im Finish Holunderblüten.

95/100 Punkte Falstaff Weinguide 2014/15

18/20 Punkte Vinum April 2015
Die Muschelkalkböden zusammen mit der warmen, exponierten Südwestlage der Ried Zieregg sind ein besonderes Terroir für Sauvignon Blanc. Mit gestaffelter Lese, dem Ausbau im grossen Holzfass und dem 18-monatigen Verbleib auf der Feinhefe schafft Tement die perfekte Harmonie zwischen Frische und Kraft: Klare Aromatik mit Noten von Yuzu, Mandelbebäck und einem Hauch von nassem Stein. Im Ansatz federleicht, schwebt beinahe über die Zunge, dennoch saftige, zupackende Säure, wunderbar lang mit kreidiger Struktur, im Finish Holunderblüten.

96/100 Punkte Falstaff Weinguide 2015/16
Helles Gelbgrün. Feine weiße Frucht, zart nach Cassis, Stachelbeerkonfit und einem Hauch von Bienenwachs, zarte Kräuterwürze unterlegt. Straff, feinwürzig, gute Komplexität, sehr präzise, weiße Frucht, vielschichtige Aromatik, anregende Frische, angenehme zitronige Nuancen, mineralischer Nachhall, große Länge, sicheres Zukunftspotenzial.

94/100 Punkte Robert Parker Apr 2016
Bottled July 2015, the 2013 Sauvignon Blanc Zieregg is deep, very intense and ripe on the smoky and chalky flavored nose; it displays pure and precise fruit aromas of lemon chutney, white peaches and passion fruit. Powerful, intense and highly concentrated on the palate, this piquant and salty wine is still in a capsule but shows a great purity, elegance and complexity. The finish is very long and reveals a compact minerality, as well as an excellent tannin structure; it indicates a great aging potential. I tasted the wine twice in the past six months and would call it the quintessence of the Zieregg cru as Sauvignon Blanc.

96/100 Punkte Falstaff Weinguide 2015/16
Helles Gelbgrün. Feine weiße Frucht, zart nach Cassis, Stachelbeerkonfit und einem Hauch von Bienenwachs, zarte Kräuterwürze unterlegt. Straff, feinwürzig, gute Komplexität, sehr präzise, weiße Frucht, vielschichtige Aromatik, anregende Frische, angenehme zitronige Nuancen, mineralischer Nachhall, große Länge, sicheres Zukunftspotenzial.

94/100 Punkte Robert Parker Apr 2016
Bottled July 2015, the 2013 Sauvignon Blanc Zieregg is deep, very intense and ripe on the smoky and chalky flavored nose; it displays pure and precise fruit aromas of lemon chutney, white peaches and passion fruit. Powerful, intense and highly concentrated on the palate, this piquant and salty wine is still in a capsule but shows a great purity, elegance and complexity. The finish is very long and reveals a compact minerality, as well as an excellent tannin structure; it indicates a great aging potential. I tasted the wine twice in the past six months and would call it the quintessence of the Zieregg cru as Sauvignon Blanc.

95/100 Punkte Falstaff Weinguide 2016/17
Mittleres Gelbgrün, Silberreflexe. Attraktive gelbe Tropenfrucht, zart nach Orangenzesten, mineralisch, feine Nuancen von Blütenhonig, etwas Limetten. Straff, knackige Struktur, weiße Frucht, salzig-zitroniger Touch, enorm mineralisch und feinstrahlig, bleibt gut haften, sehr trinkanimierender Stil.

98/100 Punkte Falstaff Weinguide 2017/18
Leuchtendes Gelbgrün. Rauchig-kräuterwürzig unterlegte feine gelbe Tropenfrucht, mineralischer Touch, zarter Blütenhonig, facettenreiches Bukett. Komplex, weiße Fruchtsüße, sehr gute Tiefe und Frische, ein vollkommen harmonischer Wein mit überzeugender Länge, dem nur mehr eines fehlt, die perfekte Trinkreife. Ein Meilenstein in der österreichischen Sauvignon-Blanc-Entwicklung.

96-98/100 Punkte Robert Parker August 2017
The golden-yellow colored, still cloudy sample of the 2015 Zieregg Sauvignon Blanc is the "picture book Tement wine" for Armin Tement. It contains all of the single plots (and more of course) and opens with a deep, intense and perfectly ripe but also flinty bouquet that indicates great depth and chalky minerality along with purity, complexity and herbal flavors. Full-bodied, silky and generous, this is a mind-blowing Austrian wine that is rich but finessed, highly complex and elegant, powerful and persistent but also fresh, vital and enormously mineral, with endless salinity. This 2015 is beautifully balanced but, nevertheless, full of tension and length. What a great and complex, pure and finessed Grand Cru from Sauvignon Blanc. And what a finish! This is a legend in the making. Tasted as a sample in May 2017.

98/100 Punkte Falstaff Weinguide 2017/18
Leuchtendes Gelbgrün. Rauchig-kräuterwürzig unterlegte feine gelbe Tropenfrucht, mineralischer Touch, zarter Blütenhonig, facettenreiches Bukett. Komplex, weiße Fruchtsüße, sehr gute Tiefe und Frische, ein vollkommen harmonischer Wein mit überzeugender Länge, dem nur mehr eines fehlt, die perfekte Trinkreife. Ein Meilenstein in der österreichischen Sauvignon-Blanc-Entwicklung.

96-98/100 Punkte Robert Parker August 2017
The golden-yellow colored, still cloudy sample of the 2015 Zieregg Sauvignon Blanc is the "picture book Tement wine" for Armin Tement. It contains all of the single plots (and more of course) and opens with a deep, intense and perfectly ripe but also flinty bouquet that indicates great depth and chalky minerality along with purity, complexity and herbal flavors. Full-bodied, silky and generous, this is a mind-blowing Austrian wine that is rich but finessed, highly complex and elegant, powerful and persistent but also fresh, vital and enormously mineral, with endless salinity. This 2015 is beautifully balanced but, nevertheless, full of tension and length. What a great and complex, pure and finessed Grand Cru from Sauvignon Blanc. And what a finish! This is a legend in the making. Tasted as a sample in May 2017.

97/100 Punkte Falstaff Weinguide 2018/19
Mittleres Gelbgrün, Silberreflexe. Feine Kräuterwürze, kühle Ausstrahlung, ganz zarte Stachelbeer-Grapefruit-Nuancen, rauchige Noten, mineralisch unterlegt. Kompakt, weiße Apfelfrucht, straff, finessenreiche Säurestruktur, zitroniger Touch, sehr elegant, konzentriert, dabei leichtfüßig wirkend, großes Zukunftspotenzial.

96+/100 Punkte Robert Parker October 2018
The intensely yellow colored 2016 Ried Zieregg Sauvignon Blanc is incredibly deep, intense and spicy on the ripe, concentrated and fresh nose that intertwines vegetal and chalky notes with spicy and coolish fruit flavors (gooseberries, black cassis). On the palate, the wine is silky textured, dense and concentrated yet tight, refined and elegant, showing gorgeous bitters (grapefruit) in the long, promising finish, though it's still a bit closed. Armin Tement believes it is the finest Zieregg the domain has ever produced, and I agree with that. If it is also the greatest, I can't yet tell, but I'll let you know as soon as I know it. Tasted June 2018.

97/100 Punkte Falstaff Weinguide 2018/19
Mittleres Gelbgrün, Silberreflexe. Feine Kräuterwürze, kühle Ausstrahlung, ganz zarte Stachelbeer-Grapefruit-Nuancen, rauchige Noten, mineralisch unterlegt. Kompakt, weiße Apfelfrucht, straff, finessenreiche Säurestruktur, zitroniger Touch, sehr elegant, konzentriert, dabei leichtfüßig wirkend, großes Zukunftspotenzial.

96+/100 Punkte Robert Parker October 2018
The intensely yellow colored 2016 Ried Zieregg Sauvignon Blanc is incredibly deep, intense and spicy on the ripe, concentrated and fresh nose that intertwines vegetal and chalky notes with spicy and coolish fruit flavors (gooseberries, black cassis). On the palate, the wine is silky textured, dense and concentrated yet tight, refined and elegant, showing gorgeous bitters (grapefruit) in the long, promising finish, though it's still a bit closed. Armin Tement believes it is the finest Zieregg the domain has ever produced, and I agree with that. If it is also the greatest, I can't yet tell, but I'll let you know as soon as I know it. Tasted June 2018.