Mosel

This off-dry Riesling is made from grapes grown on the slate-rich slopes of the beautiful Middle Mosel. Strikingly approachable in its youth, this 2016 Kabinett displays the searing acidity so characteristic of great Mosel wines. Made for us by Johannes Selbach, based in Zeltingen, this wine is crisp, with lime and floral notes. The palate is delicate and balanced with a juicy, stone-fruit core.
Fiona Hayes, Wine Buyer

Picked October 10, the 2012 Pinot Blanc trocken ** is made exclusively from Zeltingen Himmelreich grapes, whereas the regular Weissburgunder (which I did not taste) is an assemblage from Wehlen Klosterberg (the only Selbach-Oster vineyard on the other side of the Mosel river) and the Zeltinger sites Himmelreich and Schlossberg. The two-starred Pinot Blanc was fermented in a new 1,000-liter fuder and "the wine became so special that we decided to bottle it for the first time as Pinot Blanc,“ Barbara Selbach says. Indeed, the 2012 Pinot is a full-bodied (12.5% alcohol), aromatic, intense and mineral-scented wine with ripe peach aromas on the nose as on the palate. Tightly structured, fresh, and with a lingering salinity, this wine can be aged for 4-6 years.
Stephan Reinhardt, The Wine Advocate (winter 2015)

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The 2012 Zeltinger Himmelreich Riesling Anrecht is sourced from the same-named Himmelreich parcel and was picked on November 7. "The picking includes virtually everything," as Barbara Selbach puts it: "Green, golden and bronze-colored berries. We don’t care about a selection here and we would not have the time to care anyway.

On the other hand, these parcels are so good that botrytis is really rare due to the stony soils which have a good drainage." The wine was, as were its relatives Rotlay and Schmitt, labeled as Auslese or Spätlese in former times but, as Barbara Selbach said, "this was more confusing for our clients. So we decided that with 2009 we label it as Riesling Qualitätswein, not as a Prädikatswein anymore." The 2012 Anrecht offers discreet slate and herbal aromas, and tastes less sweet than the predicates, although it is analytically quite sweet (almost 78 grams per liter residual sugar).

Bottled with 8.5% alcohol, this is a firmly structured, grippy and in a certain way also rustic wine, with character and finesse and a good finish. The mixture of uneven ripe grapes might give it its somewhat edgy but tense and stimulating character. Drink 2015-2035
91/100 Stephan Reinhardt, eRobertParker.com #217 Feb 2015


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The golden-yellow colored 2013 Uhlen L(aubach) Riesling trocken opens with a fascinatingly clear, ripe, fresh and complex aroma of ripe, yellow-fleshed fruit flavors intertwined with lemon oil, chalky and some smoky speck as well as flinty slate notes on the nose. The palate of this dry, elegant, full-bodied and tightly-woven Riesling is bright, highly complex, pure and firm and there is a lovely silkiness and mineral piquancy in this wine that gives it a great future. This is an excellent pitch of the family estate that has invested a lot in the new state-of-the-art winery which was finished and solemnly opened last year.
Stephan Reinhardt, The Wine Advocate. 29th May 2015.

This small single site parcel is situated in Zeltinger Schlossberg and is renowned for beign the warmest spot in the Schlossberberg. The texture creamy and luscious, with white peach fruit and chalky minerals. The balance betweeen the sugar and acidity is exemplary. Drink 2018 - 2028+

Rich and graceful, this '02 eiswein layers its apricot, peach and mineral flavors on a firm structure, leaving the essence of peach and a hint of vanilla on the finish. It ends with a tangy note. Drink now through 2015. 100 cases made.94/100 points. (Wine Spectator - Mar-2004)

Surely the snow queen of Auslese Goldkaps? Introvert and smoky. A fine-boned delicacy - like a feather dipped in apricot syrup and frozen into a snowflake. At the same time there's apricot kernel and a hint of deliciously ripe fruit, voluptuousness all but hidden under a cloak of coruscating acidity. Pain and pleasure.
Tamlyn Curri - jancisrobinson.com, Sept 2016

This has a surprisingly youthful nose of, amongst other things, passion fruit, orange peel and lychee. The palate shows stunning purity, with exceptional minerality and pure fruit. An elegant, delicate wine with a long finish and great acidity that is drinking perfectly right now, but with maybe one or two years left of excellent drinking. 

‘Laubach’ captures the character of the region’s grey slate, rich in fossilized marine deposits & hence limestone. Tasting the 2009 reminded me of Chardonnay’s musky white flower aromas, as found in Burgundy. And yes I sensed I could perceive the fossilized shellfish deep within its stony core…drinking till 2019+
(David Berry Green)

As the name suggests, ‘Blaufusser Lay’ is a single vineyard wine underpinned by (aristocratic?) blue slate, giving a cooler, smokier, linear expression of Riesling, backed by some seriously taut & pure minerality. A wine that knows where it’s going; a wine that will improve with time. Drinking till 2019+
(David Berry Green)