I was worried about this bottle as the fill level was low and there was a lot of seepage. Didn’t matter at all. Fantastic nose of concentrated stone fruit: apricot, peach, some pineapple as well. Sweet smelling flowers ie honeysuckle and slight jasmine note. Nice, mild petrol aroma. On the palate very concentrated and in a great place in terms of the freshness and acidity combined with that aged Riesling profile of honeyed stone fruit, candied pineapple, dried citrus rind, all with a acidity framing the wonderful fruit. In a great place right now.
@Lyle Fass — a year ago
The new top wine. Floral, layered, spice, smells so deep but also a sense of much more lurking underneath. High toned mid season cherry and red currants. Really elegant and lifted. Elite. Stunning. Then saturates the palate with a level of explosive fruit and the most ripe and velvety tannins. This is best Pinot ever at Spater Veit. Unreal wine and endless finish and wonderful aging potential. Energy and keeps that finish. Genius wine. Best Mosel Pinot Noir I have ever had. Stunning. The fruit is so pure. Inner mouth aromas are stunning. — 2 years ago
One of my favorite sites in the Mosel. Gorgeous, elegant and honeyed nose. Some spice and unreal fruit. Guava, mango, honeydew melon abound. Classic Goldtropfchen. Elegant, restrained, juicy and chiseled. Sappy and pure. Compelling finesse here. Lovely slatey finish and almost tannic and just keeps pumping out the perfectly ripe fruit but staying nimble and racey the whole time. Startling length. Wow. — 4 years ago
@delectable Spater-veit goldtropfchen Riesling trocken
Nose is slate. Citrus flower. White flowers. Quite lovely. Scratch that. Fucking beautiful.
Palate is mineral. Citrus. Crunchy. Minerals made from citrus.
Elite levels of typicity. If I could create a mosel trocken from scratch this is what it would be. You can literally smell mosel slate on this. I love this wine.
Bought from fass selections — 5 years ago
Nose is so complex. Wide open nose of spices, herbs, thyme, rosemary, tarragon, apricot, meyer lemon, so comple, Riesling perfume, also leather and slate. Age has done wonders. Airy minerality as well. What a palate, This is perfect wine. So much going on. Bittersweet cocoa and coffee and also unreal acids and super complex. In the best spot. Umami for lack of a better word on the palate. Long and chewy. Honeyed, Total bee sting on the tongue. Clean and fresh. @Delectable Wine this is the Goldtropfchen Spatlese “Jupp.” Thanks! — 2 years ago
High acidity, and good citrus flavors — 3 years ago
Gorgeous wine and so energetic as 12 is not the warmest vintage but Niklas still manages to get unreal purity and ripeness. Deeply spicy nose, cardamom, clove, cinnamon, slate, asian spices. Just terrific. Palate is crackling but also has terrific mid palate opulence and acid and energy for days on the finish. Drinking so well now. — 2 months ago
Nose: lovely brioche and lemon peel perfume. Quite aromatic.
Palate: delicious sweet lemon fruit. Mineral. Hint of grapefruit. Delicious
An incredible entry level Sparkler. Not super complex on the palate or this would rank higher. But for the price you cannot beat it for this style of citrus forward sparkling.
Fass selections — 7 months ago
That’s actually the previous spater veit in the glass and this wine is much darker. What a wine. Dark berries, dark blackberry, mint, mineral, tree bark, so complex and deep. Wow this is sick. So much black cherry. Genius. Earthy. Truffley. Has some masserata in it. Some weird freak grape. Wow what a palate. Silken, sexy and lush. Lovely blackberry and purple fruits. Like a wine jelly donut filling. Stunning freshness and depth and focused like a laser. Insane linearity. Lovely sweetness. This is incredible. What a revelation. Nose is developing wild mint now. Just a gorgeous wine. So complex, complete and unique! Wow wow wow.
9.4 to 9.5 overnight. So much more complete and added elegance and energy. A stunning wine. — 4 years ago
Not super complex but refreshing. Darker than I expected, in ripeness and on the nose. There’s some blood orange and forest floor and lots of bruised ripe cherries. Slight bit of leather. Blood orange again, vanilla, and pine on the finish. It’s cherry season out there so if everyone wants to keep talking about cherries, go out and follow them throughout the season and cycles of ripeness. There’s some soft but present, fairly fine-grained tannins and a grey stream mineral finish. — 6 years ago


Ely Cohn
Unmistakably German murky crimson that reminds me of a dark forest and smells like damp leaves.
Starts rich with cherry and cedar notes, chalky minerality, and evolves into savory sappy balsamic and soy.
I remember thinking the 2012 was more fruit forward and charismatic. 2015 is darker and more restrained, with proportional dimensions. — a month ago