Wine Review: Selbach-Oster Whelener Sonnenuhr Riesling Spatlese 2021

In todays Wine-Searcher tasting, Wine Director, David Allen MW, continues his look at the wines from the fabulous Selbach-Oster estate. Today he tastes a Spatlese, a late harvested wine. The Riesling Spatlese comes from the fabulous Sonnenuhr vineyard in Wehelen. The wine in question is the Selbach-Oster Whelener Sonnenuhr Riesling Spatlese 2021.
Selbach-Oster is a German wine producer located in the Mosel Valley, a wine region famous for extremely steep slopes, slate soils, and Riesling. The Selbach family has been producing wine in the region for almost 400 years.
Selbach-Oster owns 24 hectares (59 acres) of well-known vineyard land planted mainly to ungrafted Riesling and some Pinot Blanc in the Middle Mosel. Regarded as the "golden mile", the steep, south-facing hectares stretch from Zeltingen to Bernkastel and include the vineyards Zeltinger Himmelreich, Zeltinger Schlossberg, Zeltinger Sonnenuhr, Wehlener Sonnenuhr and Graacher Domprobst.
Selbach-Oster produces a full range of Riesling wine styles, from completely dry to botrytized dessert wines. Its style aims to express the high minerality of Mosel Riesling with relatively low alcohol. Indigenous, wild yeast is used to ferment the hand-picked fruit after harvest and half of the wine produced spends time in large oak barrels called foudres.
Find out more about this wine, its pricing and availability by following this link to the Wine-Searcher website: www.wine-searc...
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[@nichotime]

The finish BUILDS WITH EACH TASTE. MIND BLOWING AT THE BACK! Thank you so much!

[@winesearcher]

Our pleasure!

[@darkoanton5]

I just found the 2019.

[@winesearcher]

Clearly a decent wine and one that seems likely to have a long life if you have the patience to keep it.