Mosel trip 2022
Tasted October 8, 2022 - October 9, 2022 by mphatic with 64 views
Introduction
A weekend away in the Mosel, in the middle of a work trip to Germany.
Flight 1 - Clemens Busch (10 notes)
08/10/22
Tasting with Oda, at the estate. Structured tasting. Short tasting impressions only.
Supple fruitiness. Tight, penetrating acidity. Finishes long and dry.
Mineral and structured, less fruity; belying the nose. Long salty finish. Needs food.
Silky palate, much softer acid than Fahrlay, yet still tight and direct. Mothers milk. Easy to drink without food.
Pear, licorice, earth, Lightly Smokey. Kero. Soft, supple acid. Wonderful mouthfeel. Beautiful wine.
Rounded on palate. Lightly honey sweet and fruity. Still showing lots of slate and earthiness. Sulphur. Light bakery aroma. Long finish.
Honey, caramelised pear and tropical fruit, soft yet balancing acid, delicate palate.
Flight 2 - Selbach Oster (17 notes)
08/10/22
Tasting with Johannes Selbach at the beautiful and modern estate tasting room overlooking the river and vineyards. I was fortunate enough to join the tasting with a couple of other guests, one of which was a wine journalist. As a result, the tasting lasted a few hours since Johannes was keen to show off a large range of wines. While starting out at a leisurely pace, by the end the wines were being served in fairly quick succession. So short tasting impressions only.
Initial sulphur and struck match. Some green lime, flyspray, almost a blackcurrant medicinal note.
Supple mouthfeel, softness to the acid, yet it drives through the finish.
Same green citrus apple sulphur/flyspray aroma. Wet rocks. Steel. Salt water.
Initially powerful and med-full on palate, it then softens toward the finish.
Same sulphur nose. Ripe fruit-red apple.
Rich umami flavour. Never have I tasted a Riesling with this level of umami.
Again, lots of flint. Similar aromas to the ZS spatlese trocken, but more cool/green. Appley drive through the long finish. Very pretty GG.
Pencil shavings, plus similar aromas to above wines. Softer and more juicy mouthfeel. Prettier and fruitier than the Schlossberg GG. Lovely and delicate GG.
Single Fuder from Bömer sector.
Huge citric power upon entry. Tight acid. Same greenish fruit. Much more sulphur. Flint. Salt and pepper.
Initial stuck match reduction. Chardonnay-like aromas. lovely acidity and balanced oak. Very tasty. Really enjoyed this.
Raspberry, sour Cherry, bitumen, graphite, steel,
Good balance. Elegant. Juicy but tight mineral structure. Light and easy drinking. Would pair nicely with food.
Cherry, chocolate. Greater tannic grip. Less immediately approachable than the Spatburgunder with greater fruit depth and minerality. Long clean finish. Slight medicinal note in background that may be stem derived. Outstanding Pinot noir.
Very long finish. Tight grippy finish.
More intense cherry, chocolate, fly spray, nutty, graphite. Fantastic aroma and palate. Buy.
Fresh citrus/lemon. Wet rocks. pencil shavings. Grippy crisp acidity. Finishes dry.
Depth on nose. Initial explosion of tight citrus fruit, pepper, then Mineral driven palate. Lots of pencil shavings. As far as feinherbs go, this is impressive.
Slate and pencil shavings. Delicate with softness.
Biscuits. Dusty. Doesn’t smell sweet at all. Crisp acidic drive. Long finish. Refreshing. Buy.
Citrus. Lemon, peach. Licorice. Lead pencils.
Layered on palate with good juicy depth yet has a fine delicacy. And good acidic grapefruit drive. Finishes long, fruity, and off-dry. Impressive Spätlese.
Ooh. This is lovely. Again like most of these Selbach Oster fruity wines, this doesn’t finish sweet or cloying.
Flight 3 - Dinner at restaurant Zeltinger Hof. (1 note)
Drank with Schweine Schnitzel “lumberjack style”.
Quite rounded on the palate for a Ruwer Kabinett, but it has tight acid to pull it into shape. Rather reserved and slightly green at this age. Quite a step below the set of Selbach-Oster wines tasted earlier in the afternoon.
Flight 4 - Markus Molitor (6 notes)
09/10/2022
Last minute decision to visit Markus Molitor on the Sunday, however being one of the few wineries open on a Sunday in the region, it allowed for one final tasting before departing the Mosel. Sitting by myself at a table along the side of the room, I was able to spend sufficient time with each wine to get the measure of it. Yet my notes are still brief.
Cork, 12.5% alc., AP7719
Slate, lime, peach, green herbs on the nose.
Immediately opening up and forthcoming on the palate. Fruity, steely undertones. Long, sappy finish. Much more open and fruity than the Clemens Busch GG tasted yesterday.
Quite easy to drink for a white capsule wine.
Steely, herbal nose with lemon and lime.
Tight, compact on palate. With lime and steel/rocks prominent. Long, acid driven finish.
Honey, gentle petrol, honeysuckle flowers.
Gentle, honeyed palate. Smooth and creamy with just enough acidity to keep it in check.
Recorked April 2020.
Exotic nose some sulphur still evident (from the recorking?). Lime, peach, and kiwi, signs of honey.
Fresh and light, Fluffy texture. Slightly sour edged fruit with a long caressing finish. Soft gentle acid that really only appears on the finish. Surprise packet. Really enjoyable. I don’t usually “get” the feinherb style; perhaps I just need to give them the opportunity of attaining greater age.
Darkest wine of flight so far.
Powerful tropical fruit and red apple nose with underlying minerality and botrytis. Creamy, with a bit of flyspray.
Nice acid to keep the sweetness in check; tight and slatey on the finish. Better to smell than to drink at the moment, needing considerably more time for the sweetness to recede and for the botrytis elements to become more complex.
300g/l R.S apparently.
Dark golden with bronze hints.
Heaps of apricot and honey, with some hints of passion fruit, tobacco, sultana.
Brown sugar, mango, and apricot flavours on the intensely fruity (rather than a nutty style) palate. Very long finish. Sufficient acid to balance the high sweetness and fruit ripeness. Not cloying. Buy.