02 Selbach-Oster Zeltinger Schlossberg Riesling Spatlese*

thanks for notes, I love Selbach-Oster. I unfortunately drank all of my 2002s too early.

Me, too. With Jean around, it's hard to keep any white wine in the cellar for more than a few years. Hopefully, as we purchase more Rieslings, Chenin and Muscadet, that'll change. That '02 Zeltinger-Sonnenuhur was a lovely wine...

Mark Lipton

That last comment helped my willpower jump out of the window. Got my first grad school acceptance earlier this week, so celebrated by breaking into a 2002 Selbach Oster Zeltinger Sonnenuhr Spatlese*.

And... wow. Bigger, richer and more intense than the Schlossberg, but still so light and elegant on its feet. A slightly different and more complex flavour profile as well, with some yellow plums and peach flavours, vanilla and woodsy herbal notes along with the apple, flowers and slate notes that I normally get in Selbach-Oster's wines. Really good acidity here, and an incredibly long finish. Another knock- out (and I preferred this to the Schlossberg, which was a real stunner as well).

Cheers,

Salil

How generous of Herr Selbach to share this. Thank you for sharing it with us, and thank him!

My sentiments, too. Thanks very much Sibeer.

-E

Thanks for sharing that Si Beer. From what I've read of him, Johannes Selbach seems like one of the really 'good guys' out there in the wine world - doesn't gun for high scoring wines if he feels they're contrived/artificial, apparently plays a major role in picking out good up and coming producers in the Mosel (based on Terry Theise's catalogue) and from what I've heard, went as far as dropping the prices a little bit on one of his recent vintages for Theise's imports so the US consumers wouldn't feel the price pinch too much (with the dollar's decline v. the Euro). Really comes off as a great person - and his wines all rock.