2001 Selbach-Oster Zeltinger Himmelreich Riesling Eiswein

Community Tasting Notes (5) Median Score: 94 points

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  4/13/2024 - Sotto325 wrote: 96 Points

  A literally perfect eiswein—almost any wine— in one of the greatest vintages in 50 years. This of course has 40 years left but now is truly breathtaking! A Riesling acid backbone that screams elegance and lively support of the melange of fruit; a viscosity that has now thinned out with that wonderful Mosel blending tropical flowers and fruit, some of the typical minerality of the site—not floral Wehlener but some mix of stone minerals and light flowers— in a package of light medium gold color. A rare treat.

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  3/26/2021 - NoTrollingerPlease Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Online Blind Tasting: BDX vs Napa plus some Sweets: Tasted blind. Note based on ~ 5cl bottle, filled two days before the tasting.
  Glass: Zalto Universal
  Clear, deep golden color. Clean, medium+ intense, developing nose, reminding me of the middle Mosel valley. Deep, balanced and harmonious.
  Sweetness is beautifully balanced by the high, wonderfully integrated acidity. This is an Auslese icewine, not with higher predicate. It is extremely calm, harmonious and balanced. Very dense and deep with clear, precise yellow stone fruit and lots of mineral notes. Creamy, but not oily or fat. One of the most balanced Icewines I had so far. Really beautiful. Drink now or within the next 5+ years. 93-94

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  11/16/2017 - drwine2001 wrote:

  Half bottle. Medium yellow. Pure citrus and yellow peach with some late petrol but no botrytis. Moderately sweet, crystal clear fruit, outstanding acidity and persistence. When I tasted my only other bottle in 2013, I thought it had already peaked, but this seems better still. Great showing.

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  2/17/2013 - drwine2001 wrote:

  Half bottle. Medium yellow. Gorgeously pure nose of ripe, yellow apple with some faint petrol and green herbs. Fairly lush and as noted by a friend, Spatlese level perceptible sweetness due to blazing acidity. Clean and without a hint of botrytis. Marvelous. Will surely hold given the acidic structure, but I'm not so sure about how much improvement to expect.

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  7/8/2012 - pacificoast wrote: 80 Points

  Absolutely, positively nothing special, and certainly not worth $150 or more per bottle. Very simple and uninteresting, a straightforward flavor of dried apricot liqueur, and that's about it. When top-class Sauternes with all their botrytis complexity can be had from top vintages such as 2001 for considerably less money, there is nothing to recommend buying something like this. Eisweins have in my opinion have tended to be ridiculously overpriced in general, and this one's a perfect example. If you want to pay for Dieter's new Mercedes, by all means, be my guest, but know that you're being fleeced as you plunk down that Amex........

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