Van Volxem Scharzhofberger Pergentsknopp Riesling Großes Gewächs 2012

94/100 vinous

"Apricot, white pepper and sweet lime on the nose, along with a hint of apple blossom. The palate offers rich peach skin flavor and impressive clarity and lift, with wet-stone slate on the back half. Finishes with a nice juxtaposition of restrained residual sugar, bracing minerality and clove. This is the best off-dry wine of the vintage."
(Joel B. Payne, vinous.com)

92+/100 PP

"The deep and refined 2012 Scharzhofberger Pergentsknopp Riesling is beautifully fragrant and refined yet intense and complex on the floral and flinty-scented nose. Creamy textured, intense and round on the palate, the 2012 develops a long and crystalline finish that reveals a still young and potent wine. It was bottled with about six grams of residual sugar. Very delicate yet intense style. Tasted in June 2019."
(Stephan Reinhardt, robertparker.com)

"Ein aristokratischer Wein aus einer Grossen Lage! Nach dem erfrischend spannungsreichen Scharzhofberger Riesling ist der „Pergentsknopp“ Große Oper – ein Wein, der uns schon in der Lese begeistert hat."
(Weingut Van Volxem)

"Wow – einfach  nur wow! Die Weine begeistern, faszinieren, machen fast sprachlos. Großes Kino!"
(Gault Millau Weinguide Deutschland 2018)

"I was blown off my feet by its energy and concentration. Wonderfully well balanced and exciting."
(Jancis Robinson, jancisrobinson.com)

„I could drink quite a lot of this stuff”
(Andreas Larsson, Best sommelier of the world 2017)