White · Mosel · Germany
Forstmeister Geltz-Zilliken Rausch Spätlese
Scored from 350 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: White · Germany (1,789 wines).
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Tasting profile
An off-dry Riesling of remarkable concentration and balance, layering honey, yellow apple, peach, citrus, melon and orange peel with floral notes, tropical fruit and a signature petrol edge. The sweetness stays restrained against bright acidity and pronounced minerality, finishing long, silky and creamy with a youthful, harmonized character.
Synthesized from 350Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Næsen er petroleum og tropisk frugt. Honning og appelsinskal. Smagen er blød melon og appelsin. Hvide blomster. Perfekt sødmebalance.”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
Forstmeister Geltz-Zilliken Rausch Spätlese is a German white from Mosel.
1,788 other whites from Germany form the cohort it is ranked inside. 350 Vivino reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 351 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this bottle against every other wine those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — four stars from someone who hands out fives means something very different from four stars from someone who rarely goes above three. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a star average.
- Global percentile
- Where Forstmeister Geltz-Zilliken Rausch Spätlese lands against every wine we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — wines of the same type from the same country. A Chilean red is judged against Chilean reds, not against Champagne. Ranked against White · Germany (1,789 wines).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each wine keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 350.
