2012 Selbach-Oster Zeltinger Sonnenuhr Riesling 'Rotlay'

Community Tasting Notes (13) Avg Score: 93.9 points

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  12/25/2021 - ipp Likes this wine: 93 Points

  complex and well balance

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  2/1/2021 - cct wrote: 94 Points

  Slate, lime sorbet, florals, and basil on the nose. It's rich, yet electric on the palate with a beautiful balance of RS, soil, acid and fruit. Deep and precise, bringing intensity without weight. A cohesive, delicious wine drinking at early peak. Fantastic with spicy Thai green curry.

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  12/14/2019 - RGCM Gananda Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Prior bottle was 17 months ago and this wine continues to show impressively. Nose continues to show lots of white orchard fruit, minerals and spices at first, but as it warms and opens up, becomes much more tropical aromatically. Still between medium and full bodied and the flavor profile remains consistent with my immediately prior bottle: white orchard fruit initially, deepening quickly and picking up more golden peach and golden apple before bringing in tart orange, tart pineapple and even a tart passion fruit note on the backside. I suspect in time, this wine will open up even more and the complexity that the mid-body will show at that stage will really be special. Acidity remains a step ahead of the 2010. Ultimately, I think this may even be better than the 2010 as the acidity is more vibrant, the fruit notes are more differentiated and the balance perhaps a bit better. You won't mistake the 2012 for a BA and as a result, especially on the cooler side, you get more complexity and nuance. Clearly a wine that will reward for several more years to come.

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  7/31/2019 - TheBosWineGuy Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Fan-bloody-tastic bottle of wine. I made some really favorable in depth notes on the first night as I was drinking about 1/3 of the bottle. Pure stone fruits like peach and white cherries with some floral and mineral notes. Tremendous acidity with just the right amount of sweetness. I had to leave town last minute and came back to this a week later and it was still so compelling after being refrigerated for 5 days whilst open. Wish I had a lot more.

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  7/2/2018 - RGCM Gananda Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Prior bottle was bit over 13 months ago and this bottle (thankfully) did show better. White orchard fruit, mineral qualities and spice notes on the nose. Between medium and full bodied (8% ABV) and opened at 50F, warming to 55F and actually showed its best on the cooler end of that scale. Mixed white orchard fruit upfront with significant depth through the middle where it starts to pick up more peach, more golden orchard fruits and shifting towards tropical qualities. Just hints of honey here (both on the nose and in the body) as compared to the 2010. The acidity here was better than the 2010, but not as wonderfully intense as my first bottle drunk back in 2015. On the cooler side, the acidity serves to balance the fruit notes a bit better. As it warms, there's a lot of complexity, but less definition. While this is clearly a wine that has the fruit and richness to last, after trying the 2009, 2010 and 2012, I can say with some confidence that for my own personal tastes, I like this style better when young. It might not be able to display the full range of complexity, but the interplay between the acidity, citrus notes and the richer fruit is something that I will miss as this particular style ages. This isn't an auslese or a BA and probably shouldn't be treated like one, sweetness level notwithstanding. I have one bottle left and will save for June 2019.

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