2012 Selbach-Oster Zeltinger Sonnenuhr Riesling Spätlese feinherb Ur Alte Reben

Community Tasting Notes (67) Avg Score: 92.5 points

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  2/21/2024 - Seth Rosenberg Likes this wine:

  Day2: Nose is muted with golden peach and apricot and spices. Wonderful stony minerals. Deep and potent. Like bottled sunshine. Th palate is superb. Beautiful peach and apricot and spice with nice minwrelriy - just a touch of sweetness to go with the deep minerals. Finish is apricots and stones. This isn’t huge, but it’s beautiful and perfectly balanced.

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  9/21/2023 - thalver wrote:

  After a couple really good bottles of this wine, this one showed a darker color more like a 10 year old Sauternes, and seemed just a bit advanced. It was by no means over the hill, but showed older, darker, less crisp with more mature notes than a bottle a couple months ago.

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  9/1/2023 - Keith Levenberg Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Vastly better than my last bottle three and a half years ago - surprised to see it change so dramatically in so short a time. This is such classic Mosel with flavors of green apple and honeydew on a base of filigreed slate. It tastes very nearly dry but feels like there is at least a smidge of sugar that kind of reminds me of a Peter Lauer wine in striking the perfect Goldilocks balance in making the wine neither too soft nor too acute, holding on to its refreshment value even as it warms up in the glass.

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  8/12/2023 - rieslinghoarder Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Brought to a group tasting in Boston, after being kept in checked luggage during a flight and put in the fridge for 4 hours before opening. Despite the potential for bottle shock, this had a tremendous showing. Grapefruit, cantaloupe, tangerine, and a core of dry slate waft from the glass. The fruit is ripe but the wine is lithe and refreshing, on the drier side of off-dry. Though light in body there is a nice delicate grip on the palate from the dry extract and fine acids that lingers for quite awhile.
  
  Such a good wine that is in a nice drinking window now, but could certainly continue to develop over the next 5-10 years.

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  5/13/2023 - Seth Rosenberg Likes this wine: 95 Points

  My bottle. Gangbusters. My last bottle of this was good but not great and a bit muted but I stuck my nose in this and BOOM! - huge peach and spice and minerals. Perfect balance and huge energy. There is a lovely bitter streak of orchard fruit pits from the immense extract. Crammed full of goodness but it’s so dynamic that it’s not even a bit heavy. Many others noted how well this was showing.
  
  Day 4: Nose is peach and apricot, spicy and Smokey, chili pepper gelee, a bitterness like peach pits. This is deep and rich with immense power humming beneath the surface. Palate is similar - deep baritone peach and apricot. Spice and smoke as well. Enters light but build and builds - really potent. It’s somewhat dry but has so much fruit that it feels sweet - the long bitter streak comes out in the middle and drives through the finish. Nose - 5/5, Palate - 5.5/6, Finish - 5.5/6, Je ne Sais Quoi - 1.5/2 = 17.5/20.

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