Zilliken

Saarburger Rausch, Riesling, Spätlese, 2016

Name: Saarburger Rausch, Riesling, Spätlese
Brand: Zilliken
Price: 142.39 GBP

95/100

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

93/100

Vinous

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2016
6x75cl
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Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

Subtle, satiny flavours of chamomile, mango, mint, salt and peach drift across the palate - a Spatlese of great refinement, with the silkiest of textures, sheer fruit, no hard edges at all, tapering to a calm, cool fruit finish. Pure pleasure.

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When it comes to purchasing wine, provenance is of utmost importance. A wine’s history – where it’s sourced from and how it’s been stored – can have an enormous influence on the eventual enjoyment it provides. At Justerini & Brooks, we can trace nearly every case back to the domaine, estate or Château it originally came from; we ship from over 200 wine producers throughout the world.

Wines not bought directly from the vineyard are either sourced from trusted suppliers, with whom we share the same philosophy and rigour in buying, or from our own network of Cellarers customers. These customers’ wines are stored in optimal conditions in Octavian Corsham and, in the vast majority of cases, have been stored by us since the wine was first shipped. We do not purchase wine from auctions.

We feel it is equally important to for our customers that the case they buy and leave in storage with us is exactly the same case they subsequently have delivered. This may sound obvious and straightforward, yet we are one of very few merchants to have taken measures to ensure this.

We have created a system where every case is independent, thereby ensuring a trail of ownership and peace of mind for every customer.

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Justerinis ensures that every case of wine stored with Cellarers (Wines) Ltd has a unique identifier and customer’s name, almost unheard of in the industry as it is expensive to administer. These details are printed and placed on every case which is logged and recorded under your account name and kept in the world’s most renowned storage facility, Octavian Corsham.

This information is sent from our systems to the warehouse every day to ensure the trail of ownership is verified and upheld.

While customer reserves are stored in Corsham, our physical stocks are kept in Hoddesdon, further providing a geographical separation between customers’ wines with Cellarers and Justerinis’ own stock.

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Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is a legally separate limited company from Justerini & Brooks which currently holds approximately £450 million worth of customer reserves. It is fully insured to catastrophic loss. Many merchants will state that wine in their care is fully insured, but in reality this is on an individual case basis with insufficient cover for total loss as this is prohibitively expensive. The cover provided by Octavian and Justerini & Brooks is unmatched.

Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is audited by PwC every year.

Critic Reviews

95/100

Stephan Reinhardt,

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The 2016 Saarburger Rausch Riesling Spatlese (AP #3) offers a terrific bouquet of tropical fruit aromas intermixed with very fine, coolish slate and flinty aromas. Lush yet very elegant and fine on the palate, with highly delicate salinity in the finish, this is a beautiful Spatlese that reveals very fine raisin flavors and highly delicate acidity. This is a gorgeous Riesling from the Saarburger Rausch! Made with some percent of overripe berries, which gives this fabulous aroma and lush texture. Great finesse here as well. Tasted March 2018.

drinking window 2018 - 2050

date of review 04/2018

93/100

David Schildknecht,

Vinous

Lime, grapefruit, white peach and papaya dominate on the nose and palate, accompanied by delightful accents of cooling mint, bittersweet iris perfume and Rausch-typical hints of smoke and stone. The combination of animatingly juicy citricity with seductively creamy texture is quite striking, and the resounding finish is bell-clear, consummately refreshing and impeccably balanced, despite harboring an amazingly high level of residual sugar.

drinking window 2017 - 2038

date of review 03/2018

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This product may contain sulphites. Full allergen information is available upon request, please call our Customer Relations Team on +44 (0)20 7484 6430.