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2018 Selbach-Oster Zeltinger Sonnenuhr Riesling Kabinett Mosel

SKU #1461481 91 points John Gilman

Outer quote mark The 2018 Zeltinger Sonnenuhr Kabinett is also very pretty this year, but it is a touch riper and softer than the Schlossberg version. This comes in at an even ten percent alcohol and delivers a refined bouquet of lemon, apple, salty slate, a touch of white cherry, spring flowers and bee pollen. On the palate the wine is pure, medium-full and gently creamy on the attack, with a good core, fine focus and complexity and a long, elegant and classy finish that is just a touch gentle in its acidity. (Drink between 2019-2045) Inner quote mark (4/2019)

90 points Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

Outer quote mark The 2018 Zeltinger Sonnenuhr Riesling Kabinett is quite deep and intense on the concentrated and complex nose. Round, lush and elegant on the palate, this is a lingeringly salty, very elegant and well-articulated Kabinett with tickling acidity and a fruit-intense, stimulating and grippy crystalline finish. It's not that sweet but is perfectly balanced, with mineral intensity and body. Just 10% alcohol but lots of expression. Tasted from AP 7 19 in May 2019. (SR) Inner quote mark (6/2019)

90 points Vinous

Outer quote mark Honeysuckle and heliotrope garland fresh apple on an effusively flowery nose. The palate is creamy in texture yet infectiously juicy, and the finish is refreshing and admirably transparent to stony underpinnings. Like its Schlossberg counterpart, this is a pretty, poised and appropriately buoyant as well as refreshing Kabinett. (DS) Inner quote mark (8/2020)

K&L Notes

90 points Mosel Fine Wines: "AP: 07 19. The 2018er Zeltinger Sonnenuhr Riesling Kabinett was harvested at 91° Oechsle and was fermented down to fruity-styled levels of residual sugar (45 g/l). It offers a delicately elegant and restrained nose of spicy pear, vineyard peach, candied citrus, orange zest and elderflower. The wine is nicely balanced on the palate, even if it shows more the fruity presence and character of a Spätlese than those of a real fresh Kabinett. The finish is delicately smooth and direct in style. 2023-2033." (04/2019)

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2018 Selbach-Oster Zeltinger Sonnenuhr Riesling Kabinett Mosel

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Riesling

- While the rest of the world has often misappropriated the name--Welchriesling, Riesling Italico, Gray Riesling and Emerald Riesling are all names applied to varieties that are NOT Riesling--this exceptional German varietal has managed to maintain its identity. Perhaps its biggest claims to fame are its intoxicating perfume, often described as having honeyed stone fruit, herb, apple and citrus notes, and its incredible longevity - the wines lasting for decades. Aged Rieslings often take on a distinctive and alluring Petrol-like aroma. Within Germany, the grape seems to do best in the warming slate soils of the Mosel-Saar-Ruwer. Other German regions that turn out great Rieslings include Pfalz, Rheingau and Nahe. German Rieslings are made in a range of ripeness levels. The top wines are assigned Prädikat levels to describe their ripeness at harvest. These are: Kabinett, Spätlese, Auslese, Beerenauslese, Eiswein and Trockenbeerenauslese. Riesling has also achieved acclaim in France's Alsace, the only region in that country where the grape is officially permitted. Alsatian Rieslings are typically dry and wonderfully aromatic. Austrian Riesling is also steadily gaining praise and fine Riesling is also produced in Italy's Alto-Adige and Friuli, in Slovenia and much of Central and Eastern Europe. In the New World its stronghold is Australia, where it does best in the Eden and Clare Valleys. It is also planted in smaller amounts in New Zealand. In the US, winemakers are eschewing the syrupy sweet versions of the 1970s and 1980s, instead making elegant and balanced wines in both California and Washington State.

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Germany

- Thanks to a recent string of excellent vintages and to the reemergence of Germany onto the international wine writing scene, this is a country that's hot, hot, hot! Germany is divided into 13 wine Region and produces a very wide variety of wine styles, from incredibly high-acid, dry wines to some of the sweetest, most unctuous concoctions on the planet and even a few surprisingly hearty reds. Most of the highest-quality wines are grown on steep banks along the rivers in these Region. Small vineyards are still mostly hand tended and picked, due to the difficult nature of mechanization on these slopes. White wine production accounts for nearly 80% of the total with Riesling being the most important varietal, though Muller-Thurgau is still more widely planted.

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