Community Tasting Notes 21

• ChrisR Likes this wine:

  November 4, 2020 - After a string of flabby, overly-sweet and generally uninteresting spatleses of about this vintage, it was nice to get one with a lighter touch. Delicate stone fruits (peaches and nectarines) predominate, with a hint of citrus and taking on some apricot overtones with air. Still with a precise line of acid, it had good balance of acid and sweetness, making for a finely piquant mouthfeel. Lacked some depth and complexity. Quite good overall.

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• Sotto325 wrote: 93 points

  August 26, 2018 - Just wonderful lighter precision and hitting the beginning of that magical path that great sweet Mosel Rieslings enter: when the viscosity thins, the tropical flowers and herbs merge with the tropical fruit and the blended wine becomes a world unto itself. Significant flint flavors at the outset with cumquat, orange peel , tart apple, apricot, and some lime. I was surprised that a high sugar vintage with late-picked grapes (also tested almost like a hint of boytritis) could develop so early like this. Hold tight as this will become a star. The only limitation is the slight absence complex flavor.

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• James Kim Likes this wine: 92 points

  June 9, 2018 - Wine Tasting Group - Theme: Germany/Austria - June 9, 2018 (Sakhuu Thai Cuisine, Dallas, TX): When initially opened thought this might be a feinherb as the wine didn't seem too ripe, esp. given the vintage. However, with air, definitely showed the spatlese ripeness. Lots of minerals on the palate, with ripe apples, pineapples, spices, and a nice herbal bitterness on back end. Excellent acids keep everything balanced. With more time, the wine comes together with all the flavors becoming more amped - esp the spice and herbal elements - adding to a greater sense of complexity. After all that, still tastes young and should have many years ahead. My second favorite, a hair behind the Lauer Sekt.

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• Rieslingfan wrote:

  April 5, 2015 - Still early in its life, this is showing tons of peach and apple fruit that is coated in spiced honey and vanilla. It's clearly an Auslese in style and weight, perhaps even one that deserves a few stars on the label. Paired with some spicy Indian food it worked quite well, and then held its own as a dessert wine. Impressive stuff.

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• MindMuse wrote: 91 points

  June 12, 2013 - Juicy peaches and cream, orange tones, honeysuckle, wet green leaves, light viscous (not lean) minerals. Tasty, tasty.
  Fine with multiple styles of hot wings night one, and chili and (less so with) a burger night two.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2005
• Type White - Off-dry
• Producer Selbach-Oster
• Varietal Riesling
• Designation Spätlese
• Vineyard Zeltinger Sonnenuhr
• Country Germany
• Region Mosel Saar Ruwer
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation n/a

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• Pending Delivery 6 (2%)
• In Cellars 201 (64%)
• Consumed 106 (34%)

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