Domäne Serrig Kabinett 2020

Tasted again from my private library along with the 2021s, Molitor's inaugural Serrig 2020 Vogelsang Kabinett opens with a clear, precise and savory bouquet of ripe, intense, bright fruit aromas. Round, lush and slightly caramelly due to the extraordinary warmth and ripeness of the vintage, this is a charmingly round, generous, very intense, long and tensioned Kabinett with lots of terroir and vintage expression. It is a little sweet on the aftertaste but is vital and intense on the palate and stimulating on the crystalline and savory finish. It is remarkably intense and only moderately sweet. This bottle confirms my findings from last year. 10.5% stated alcohol. Natural cork. Tasted in September 2024.

Very fresh and delicate nose of an entire garden of herbs, yellow grapefruit and pomelo. Juicier than the nose suggested with stacks of white tree fruits and citrus zest freshness on the medium-bodied palate, this is a youthful and very elegant riesling for the 2020 vintage. Emphatically dry and long for this theoretically off-dry category, but also finely etched. This has just reached its best youthful drinking form, but the party has only just begun! Drink or hold.