Awards
2024: James Suckling: 97/100 "This dry muscat has astonishing racy energy and great wet-stone minerality on the sleek and super-focused palate. What fantastic pink and yellow grapefruit aromas, also a forthright grapiness. Powerful and vibrant wet-stone finish."
2022: James Suckling: 97/100 (Best Muskateller 2023) "Dry muscat can be zesty and refreshing, but it seldom achieves this combination of excellent concentration and great finesse. The interplay of the salty minerality and the juicy fruit (pink grapefruit, pomelo, fresh pineapple) must be tasted to be believed! Super-long and elegant finish that pulls you ever deeper into this muscat masterpiece. From 50-year-old vines." | Ronn Wiegand (RESTAURANT WINE® Issues #216-#223, Summer 2025): 5/5 "The Bürgergarten Muskateller is splendid: a richer, finer wine than the Haardt, with intense flavor (rose petal, jasmine, litchi nut, pineapple, lime), excellent balance, and a long, full finish."
2020: James Suckling: 99/100 (TOP 100 WINES OF GERMANY 2021) "Welcome to the most beautiful rose garden there ever was! But, wait a minute, there are also hibiscus, jasmine and all kind of other floral aromas hanging in the air. The concentration and complexity of this totally exceptional dry muscat is off the scale! Breathtaking freshness at the almost endless finish. A dry muscat miracle! Drink or hold."
2019: James Suckling: 98/100 "Maybe the finest dry muscat I ever tasted! The supernatural freshness and concentration literally takes your breath away. You really need a whole evening with this wine, to get to grips with the aromatic subtlety (although there is a grapey note and some typical citrus). Long, super bright finish with a ton of minerality. From organically grown grapes. Drink or hold." | Robert Parker: 93/100 "The 2019 Bürgergarten Muskateller is a picture-book Muscat. Crystal clear, intense and highly aromatic but precise and with vegetal notes on the nose, this is a medium to full-bodied, intense, structured, very elegant and seductive wine with a mouthfull of tropical fruit flavors, well-dosed power and inner intensity. Catoir's substantial and sustainable 2019 Bürgergarten Muskateller, a premier cru or VDP. Erste Lage, is a highlight of the collection and can compete with the finest Muscats from Alsace. Tasted as a sample in April 2020." | Eichelmann: "... the wine from the Bürgergarten is the best muscatel that we were able to taste from the Palatinate this year, it shows floral notes and aromas of elderflower and citrus fruits, pineapple, lime, has a lively acidity on the palate balanced and sustainable."
2017: James Suckling: 96/100 | restaurantwine (Ronn Wiegand): 5/5 stars - "An exceptional dry Muskateller from the Burgengarten vineyard. It is fragrant, medium full bodied, and crisp, with intense rose petal, litchi nut, lime, tangerine, pineapple, and lemon grass aromas/flavors, good balance, and a long, crisp finish. Will develop with modest aging." | Wine accompaniment at the Supperclub 2018 for "Wan Tan"
Cigarre: Recommended for cigar "Aurora Palmas Extra" (The combination gives a very pleasant experience)
