Winkeler Hasensprung Rheingau Riesling 2015

90+/100 Punkte Robert Parker Dec 2017
The 2015 Rheingau Riesling Spätlese Winkeler Hasensprung has a clear and precise but reductive bouquet with SO2 notes. Based on 40% botrytis grapes, this is a light but juicy-intense, finessed and promising Spätlese whose terroir character is completely hidden for the moment and probably for the next 10-20 years. However, this is a refreshing, linear and piquant picture-book Spätlese for this highly reductive style. Fermented in a 600-liter Halbstück, the 2015 was bottled with 9% alcohol and almost 59 grams of residual sugar in April 2016 under screwcap. Tasted in November 2017.