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Selbach-Oster Zeltinger Schlossberg "Schmitt" Riesling Auslese 2022 750ml

size
750ml
country
Germany
JS
98
WA
95
VM
94
Additional vintages
JS
98
Rated 98 by James Suckling
A giant Mosel riesling that defies all the regular categories and stands tall alone at high noon. Immensely concentrated and extremely pure this is just beginning its long journey into the future of Planet Wine where a lucky few will praise its complete originality. Barely off-dry balance, but these words don’t really tell you much about this masterpiece. Limited production. Drink or hold. ... More details
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Selbach-Oster Zeltinger Schlossberg "Schmitt" Riesling Auslese 2022 750ml

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Professional Ratings
JS
98
WA
95
VM
94
JS
98
Rated 98 by James Suckling
A giant Mosel riesling that defies all the regular categories and stands tall alone at high noon. Immensely concentrated and extremely pure this is just beginning its long journey into the future of Planet Wine where a lucky few will praise its complete originality. Barely off-dry balance, but these words don’t really tell you much about this masterpiece. Limited production. Drink or hold.
WA
95
Rated 95 by Wine Advocate
Picked mid-October at 96° Oechsle, the 2022 Zeltinger Schlossberg Riesling Auslese Schmitt is still pretty reductive on the deep, precise and flinty nose. Lush and savory on the palate, this is a refreshing, clear and vivacious, grippy and tensioned Riesling from 43-year-old vines in a south-facing but open-to-the-wind vineyard. The finish is intense and stimulating, and after a decade—or better, two—this should be an excellent gastronomic wine for even meat dishes. 7% stated alcohol plus 99.8 grams per liter of residual sugar. Natural cork. Tasted at the domaine in November 2023.
VM
94
Rated 94 by Vinous Media
The 2022 Riesling Zeltinger Schlossberg Auslese Schmitt is fully south-facing and located on the lower mid-slope. The nose is still dominated by funky reduction. The juicy palate unites herbal savor, candied apple, vivid red apple, Reine Claude plum and ripe peach. This is lively, aromatic, shimmering with these various fruits and adding a little herbal spice such as crushed yarrow and fine slate. Vivid and lasting with 99g/L of residual sweetness. (Sweet)
Winery
This is one of a trio of en-bloc harvested single parcels. Bearing in mind that the fundamental principle is to wait as long as possible and then pick the whole vineyard in a single pass. Thus the wine is more of-a-piece than usual, and it’s also well up into the Auslese echelon. Indeed this wine is so rich it almost subsumes its charged minerality – almost! If the palate follows the aroma that mineral will emerge, though it may take some years.
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size
750ml
country
Germany
Additional vintages
Overview
A giant Mosel riesling that defies all the regular categories and stands tall alone at high noon. Immensely concentrated and extremely pure this is just beginning its long journey into the future of Planet Wine where a lucky few will praise its complete originality. Barely off-dry balance, but these words don’t really tell you much about this masterpiece. Limited production. Drink or hold.
green grapes

Varietal: Riesling

Riesling grapes have produced some of the finest wines of the Old World over the past couple of centuries, and are quickly becoming much loved by New World audiences as their influence continues to spread across the globe. They are generally grown and cultivated in colder climates, as is found in their native Germany, where they have the remarkable ability to pick up and express interesting features of their terroir, or the ground on which they are grown. As such, wine enthusiasts generally find Riesling one of the more interesting white grape varietals, as they produce aromas which are highly floral and perfumed alongside both fruit flavors and refreshing notes of stone and alpine water, depending on where they have been grown. Furthermore, Riesling grapes produce a large variety of fine wines, from still to sparkling, sweet to dry, and wineries which work with this grape have long since been experimenting with both frozen and rotten grapes to find out just how versatile and exciting this varietal can be.
fields

Country: Germany

If German wine has had something of a bad reputation in the past, it may well be the fault of the fact that for a long time now, the Germans have simply kept all the best produce to themselves. Visit any town or village in wine producing regions of Germany, and you'll be faced with a stunning array of extremely high quality wines, each matched with local dishes and full of distinct character and flavor. As white wine production makes up for about two-thirds of all Germany's wine industry, this is by far the most visible and widely enjoyed type of wine, but one should not overlook the quality and range of rosé and red wines on offer from this fascinating country. In particular, the Spatburgunder wines (the German name for Pinot Noir) are generally of an exceptionally high quality, being full of dark, intense hedgerow fruit flavors and exciting spicy notes with a silky smooth finish.
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Winery Selbach-Oster
green grapes

Varietal: Riesling

Riesling grapes have produced some of the finest wines of the Old World over the past couple of centuries, and are quickly becoming much loved by New World audiences as their influence continues to spread across the globe. They are generally grown and cultivated in colder climates, as is found in their native Germany, where they have the remarkable ability to pick up and express interesting features of their terroir, or the ground on which they are grown. As such, wine enthusiasts generally find Riesling one of the more interesting white grape varietals, as they produce aromas which are highly floral and perfumed alongside both fruit flavors and refreshing notes of stone and alpine water, depending on where they have been grown. Furthermore, Riesling grapes produce a large variety of fine wines, from still to sparkling, sweet to dry, and wineries which work with this grape have long since been experimenting with both frozen and rotten grapes to find out just how versatile and exciting this varietal can be.
fields

Country: Germany

If German wine has had something of a bad reputation in the past, it may well be the fault of the fact that for a long time now, the Germans have simply kept all the best produce to themselves. Visit any town or village in wine producing regions of Germany, and you'll be faced with a stunning array of extremely high quality wines, each matched with local dishes and full of distinct character and flavor. As white wine production makes up for about two-thirds of all Germany's wine industry, this is by far the most visible and widely enjoyed type of wine, but one should not overlook the quality and range of rosé and red wines on offer from this fascinating country. In particular, the Spatburgunder wines (the German name for Pinot Noir) are generally of an exceptionally high quality, being full of dark, intense hedgerow fruit flavors and exciting spicy notes with a silky smooth finish.