Parker - Wine Advocate Stephan Reinhardt (98+ Punkte)
There was no Beerenauslese selected in 2015, but the first TBA since 2011. The golden-yellow colored 2015 Schloss Johannisberger Riesling Trockenbeerenauslese Goldlack is clear and open on the nose, displaying ripe but healthy fruit and perfect raisin aromas, along with flinty flavors. The texture is viscous, really noble and elegant, highly piquant and finesse-full; it pairs sheer concentration with purity, finesse and salinity. This is a great, great TBA and surely one of the highlights of Riesling made in Germany. It has been selected with great care, because this is a luxury product. This is one of the finest TBAs I had in the Rheingau.
Wine Spectator (97 Punkte)
Intense yet light as a feather, exuding caramel, apricot, lemon jujube and brown spice aromas and flavors. Impeccably balanced, with bracing acidity driving the incredibly long aftertaste. Drink now through 2040. 20 cases made.
Vinous David Schildknecht (95 Punkte)
Representing 330 painstakingly selected liters, this elixir is decidedly Esszencia-like in its combination of sheer thickness and alcoholic levity. A smoky, spirituous aura is conveyed on the nose; prickly lemon peel and poire distillate cause my nasal hairs to stand on end. Dried and glazed apricots join pear concentrate and quince jelly on a midpalate that is almost syrupy thanks to viscosity and sheer sweetness, but gets pulled back from the brink of saccharinity by the gravitational force of acidity and extract. The buoyant, lingering, multifaceted finish displays unanticipated clarity and admirable purity of fruit, while hints of caramel and chestnut honey enhance the sense of botrytized richness and a touch of salinity serves for saliva-inducement more than sufficient to compel the next luscious, memorable sip.