"Stephan Reinhardt, The Wine Advocate 93+ Points
The 2020 Riesling Ürziger Würzgarten Kabinett (Green Capsule) opens with a clear, bright, flinty, savory and greatly finessed bouquet with crunchy red slate and ripe lemon juice aromas. Round and supple but also finessed and elegant, this is a light-footed, filigreed and aromatic yet still reductive Kabinett with lovely, youthful astringency. It is light as a feather and colored like a parrot. 9.5% stated alcohol. Natural cork. Tasted in September 2023. Drink Date 2030 - 2050"
Stephan Reinhardt, The Wine Advocate
When Markus Molitor came all the way to Geisenheim to show me the two Saar Rieslings from his Domäne Serrig, I had just finished my tasting of the 2021 and 2022 Rheingau Rieslings with Johannes Leitz. I had asked Molitor to bring me some of his top wines to have a context for his new Saar wines. Although I tasted all the wines a while before and it was still too early to see how they had developed so soon after the bottling, I took the chance to give an update. Although our system will handle the new scores as a kind of new or updated rating, I ask you to handle these notes with caution and see them only in context with my previous notes. Molitor's Rieslings develop very slowly, and new reviews normally do not make much sense except after eight to 10 years later. The only stunning finding I had comparing the Serrig wines with the wines listed here is that the established Markus Molitor Rieslings taste much more reductive and aloof than the upcoming releases of Domäne Serrig even though they are more or less made the same way: handpicked, basket pressed and fermented with natural yeasts in large oak casks for eight to 10 months. The SO2 doses are similar, and yet there is a difference not just of terroir but also of style. While the established 2020 Molitor Rieslings are still sleepers, the Serrig Rieslings are currently singing and of incomparable brightness and finesse.
