Description
“The 2020 Marienburg Raffes is pure, very intense and fresh on the crystalline nose, with popcorn, mocha and crushed slate aromas. Silky, lush and generous on the palate, this is a full-bodied, dense, intense and refined yet crystalline and saline, firmly structured and very sustainable Raffes with fine tannins and a long and promising finish. This is a highly complex dry Riesling that is not as soft or as feminine as the Felsterrasse but behaves like the Hermannshöhle to the Dellchen. More aristocratic and shy rather than generous and tender. 12.5% stated alcohol. Natural cork. Tasted at the domaine in July 2022.” 99 Stephan Reinhardt
“The 2020er Marienburg Raffes, as it is referred to on the main part of the label, is a legally dry wine (with 7 g/l of residual sugar) fermented spontaneously in traditional oak casks from late-harvested fruit in a prime terraced part of the grey-slated Falkenlay sector and which underwent an extended maturation on its lees. It offers a stunning nose made of grapefruit puree, starfruit, mirabelle, earthy spices, and some smoky elements. The wine is nicely juicy and quite playful on the smooth and not bone-dry tasting palate. It is however only in the finish that this wine shows its remarkably finesse and potential. Layers upon layers of juicy fruit add to the overall sense of balance and precision to the aftertaste. This is a remarkable Riesling in the making! 2028-2040” 94 Mosel Fine Wines
