Incredible German Wines

Riesling - the most collectible white wine in the world of wine! And these are among the best.

Selbach-Oster 2005

Bernkastler Badstube Riesling Kabinett 2005 $17.99
Parker 92 “The 2005 Bernkasteler Badstube Riesling Kabinett smells vividly of ginger-tinged black cherry right down to the pit. It exhibits amazing richness on the palate yet also true Kabinett elegance, refreshment, and lightness of touch. Sappy, spicy, juicy, and multi-dimensionally mineral in a finish of tonic satisfaction (never, of course, losing sight of the cherries), this wine offers amazingly mouth-coating persistence and – despite harboring nearly 50 grams of residual sugar (high for this estate) – exhibits perfect balance. I’m betting that this exceptional value is a 20-year Kabinett that won’t have a bad day along the way.”

Berkastler Badstube Spatlese 2005 $19.99
Parker 92 “The 2005 Bernkasteler Badstube Riesling Spätlese brings cherry (fresh and distilled), orange zest, and brown spices in the nose, with a honeyed, ethereal overtone of botrytis. Palate-saturating in its intense cherry, brown spice, and faintly sizzling hint of botrytis, this finishes with enormous richness of fruit that successfully overrides faint warmth, then leaves behind a subtle sense of mineral residue. There is every reason to believe this phenomenal value would stand up to more than two decades in the cellar.”

Zeltinger Sonnenuhr Riesling Spatlese 2005 $24.99
Parker 93 “The 2005 Zeltinger Sonnenuhr Riesling Spätlese comes from ancient vines in several of the Selbachs best parcels in the core of the Sonnenuhr. Heady, sweet and exotic floral notes waft from the glass, along with scents of vanilla, apple jelly, and pungent grapefruit rind and lemon oil. On the glossy, rich yet bright palate, high-toned peach, pear nectar, and honey ally themselves with apple, vanilla, flowers, and citrus in a colorful reflection of a great Mosel site. There is such intensity and diversity of fruit in the finish that one cannot really talk about subtlety, but one can certainly talk about a superb, ageworthy Riesling.”

Zeltinger Sonnenuhr Riesling Auslese *** (3 Star) 2005 $69.99
Parker 97 “The scents and flavors of vanilla, nougat, butter cream, apple jelly, and honey here are themselves practically mouth-filling. Then one sips, and an incredibly dense, bright, concentrate of fruit and nut essences emerges, profoundly layered, coated with honey, vanilla cream, malt, brown spices, and honey, yet never losing a fresh-fruited core, and absolutely clear, pure, refined, and free from any blemish or roughness. It might be only once in a lifetime that a vintner can pick such a wine right off the vine, without selection, opines Johannes Selbach. The finish positively reverberates in its multiple registers against walls of slate. Three or four decades will not be an unrealistic estimate of this wine’s longevity.”

Zeltinger Sonnenuhr Riesling Auslese Rotlay 2005 $39.99
Parker 94 “From an exceptional red slate portion of the Sonnenuhr, Selbach’s 2005 Zeltinger Sonnenuhr Auslese “Rotlay” displays high-toned, diverse esterous fruit distillates along with some of the same dusty, smoky manifestation of botrytis possessed by the two star Auslese from this site. Vanilla cream, apple jelly, and white peach preserve on the palate are layered with juicy citrus, spices, nut oils, salt, wet stone, and indeed all the way down to the milk chocolate end of the spectrum. The enormous sheer density and a goodly measure of bright citricity keep the botrytis from becoming bitter or fatiguing. With such multi-faceted and abundant raw material and energy, this finishes with almost inscrutable intensity. It should make a great display of itself even 30 or more years from now.” SOLD OUT