Professional reviews:

Weinplus.de: "Tiefer und konzentrierter, dabei noch eher verschlossen wirkender, tabakiger, leicht hefiger und getrocknet-pflanzlicher Duft nach teils kandierten Zitrusfrüchten sowie herbem, aber doch sehr reifem Steinobst mit intensiver Mineralik. Reife, straffe, sehr saftige Frucht im Mund, hefige und etwas kräuterige bis tabakige Aromen, lebhafte, feine Säure, präsente, reife Gerbstoffe, dicht, tief und nachhaltig am Gaumen, intensive Mineralik, süßlicher Schmelz, komplex, noch sehr, sehr jung, langer, saftiger und herbwürziger Abgang mit tiefer Mineralik und vegetabilen Tönen. 2013-2022+. 95"

Wine Advocate: "Review by David Schildknecht Wine Advocate # 198 (Dec 2011) Rating: 91 Drink 2011 - 2017

Enticing, penetrating, high-toned freesia and mint scent Battenfeld-Spanier’s 2010 Hohen-Sulzer Kirchenstuck Riesling Grosses Gewachs, and are then joined on a satiny palate by fresh white peach and a surprisingly vivid sense of crushed stone. Piquant only to the extent that its notes of peach kernel and toasted grains enhance the invigoration offered by a generously juicy finish; and surprisingly buoyant given its 13.5% alcohol, this ought to charm for at last the next half dozen years.

This year’s Battenfeld-Spanier collection – which, in Oliver Spanier’s unavoidable absence, I tasted with his father-in-law Roland Gillot – proved on the whole far more generous in vinous personality than that of nuptial partner-estate Kuhling-Gillot. And while the higher-alcohol and more aggressive phenolics in this estate’s Grosses Gewachs bottlings had in the past led me to sometimes prefer their lighter, more elegant and refreshing, if ostensibly lesser, “village” cuvees, in 2010 the crus were neither alcoholically-freighted nor – with one exception – overly astringent. (Incidentally, I missed tasting this year’s generic Battenfeld-Spanier Riesling.)"