Selbach Oster Zeltinger Schlossberg Riesling Spatlese 2019
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Shaped by their unique terroir, our wines come with their own original characteristics, which we strive to preserve and not to alter. They will age beautifully for many years and gain complexity. They present a wide variety of aromas, depth of flavor and true complexity while also showing clarity and minerality.
?Peach, apricot, apple, as well as citrus fruit and herbs are typical features of the aroma of our young and dry wines. Our delicately and subtley sweet wines show nuances of quince and tropical fruit, and the ripest of them will display honey and raisin flavors, often backed by a touch of salty minerality, and always balanced by crunchy acidity.
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James Suckling
Brimming with papaya and ripe citrus, this is simultaneously succulent and super fresh with energetic acidity driving the finish along. Drink or hold. Screw cap.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2019 Zeltinger Schlossberg Riesling Spätlese is coolish, pure and flinty on the naked and crunchy yet dense, concentrated and fruity nose that is based on 10% botrytis. Salty-piquant and stimulatingly pure on the palate, this is a crystalline, intense and lush yet very precise and even challenging Riesling that needs a decade to dance on ice instead of a razor blade. Tasted at the domain in September 2020.
Rating: 93(+)
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Since 1661 the Selbach family has owned vineyards in the Mosel region. Their main treasure is simply what nature presents us with: excellent vineyard-sites, and old, ungrafted vines on steep, south-facing slopes planted on heat-retaining, mineral-rich, rocky slate soil. Their philosophy of winemaking is "hands-on" in the vineyards and "hands-off" in the cellar. Most of Selbach Oster wines are still fermented and matured in the traditional oak "Fuder"-barrels supplemented by a small number of stainless-steel vats. They do not use new oak for Rieslings to preserve the delicate structure of subtle fruit and crisp acidity as purely as possible