2015 Selbach-Oster Graacher Domprobst Riesling Auslese

Community Tasting Notes (8) Avg Score: 92.4 points

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  8/26/2018 - RGCM Gananda Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Floral notes, rich orchard fruit qualities and some hints of tropical on the nose. Between medium and full bodied and started off with apple, pear and melon, all in the white orchard range. Good amount of additional depth through the middle, but extremely densely packed at this point. What shines through are additional orchard fruit notes (especially peach) which carry more polish and richness and then beginnings of pineapple, guava and honey. Backside shows wonderfully tart, acidity based qualities including lemon, guava and apple before the mineral notes take over on the finish. Acidity throughout, and especially on the backside was a beautiful standout point for this wine. This auslese demonstrated that sense of acidity-based verve and liveliness, that when combined with the depth of the fruit, promises a long life and improvements to complexity in the future. Probably opened several years too early, but had the opportunity to buy more and figured that was a good excuse to try. Right now, it has richness and depth, but not overt sweetness or strongly honeyed notes. I'll be very interested to see where this wine is in about five years or so, once it starts to open up; the combination of fruit, acidity, depth and complexity means it should score higher in the future. Next bottle for me, no sooner than July 2020, perhaps even later.

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  3/12/2018 - acyso wrote: 93 Points

  #23-16, 8% abv. In all honesty, this probably isn't a better bottle or showing than the last two, but somehow, it's just really hitting the spot tonight. Let that be a lesson to you, boys and girls. The nose shows some really pleasant florals, a touch of honey, and a slight bit of reduction. The fruit on the nose isn't too prominent. The palate shows a very generous sweetness, as well as an intense slate note on the back end. But the fruit shows a little non-descript. Good acidity that cuts through everything.

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  4/24/2017 - acyso wrote: 90 Points

  #23-16, 8% abv. This seems to have already lost a lot of those bottling aromas (such as the Haribo pineapple gummi bears), and seems to have smoothed out fairly nicely. The nose shows a slight bit of pear and apple, as well as a touch of spice, while the palate, which is quite sweet, is fairly light and not too concentrated. There are some of those same fruit flavours, and there's definitely ample acidity here, though it's not particularly searing. This is a bit of a softer wine by Mosel standards.

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  12/7/2016 - KeithAkers wrote: 92 Points

  Rieslings & Pinots (Sun Wah BBQ, Chicago IL): Nose: The nose is fresh and perfumed with tropical citrus notes, green apples, guava, peaches, crushed rocks, and some white florals. There is a spring time quality to the nose with excellent depth.
  
  Taste: Medium bodied with high acidity. The acidity is crisp and refreshing with tropical citrus, green apples, guava, crushed rocks, and white florals.
  
  Overall: This is a lovely, young Auslese. It is perfectly balanced on both the nose and palate with the aromatics jumping out of the glass. This is delicious right now, but there is certainly room to grow.

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  12/7/2016 - acyso wrote: 90 Points

  Riesling and Pinot at Sun Wah (Chicago, IL): #23-16, 8% abv. Perhaps one of the runts in the Selbach-Oster litter, this was still a fairly delicious example of a riesling. Light, with almost no botrytis, this has a nice touch of green herbs, as well as a heaping amount of pineapple gummy bears (the Haribo version is reserved exclusively for use when describing Schaefer's wines). Moderately sweet and a lighter touch of acid. Not as concentrated, dense, or mineral, as I'd expect from the site (but I'm mostly projecting the Schaefer version onto this).

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