Selbach-Oster Riesling Zeltinger Alte Reben Trocken 2021 070226CHILL head-turning flavors

head-turning flavors

Highly perfumed

with a fine mousse and a taut

dried fruits and balanced acidity

Nobody works it with more authority than Domaine des Comtes Lafon

Selbach-Oster Riesling Zeltinger Alte Reben Trocken 2021 070226CHILL head-turning flavorsThis was the first one. 2021 marked the debut of Selbach Oster's Alte Reben trocken, a dry Riesling built entirely from the estate's oldest vines in Zeltingen. Johannes Selbach and his son Sebastian aged it in the classic big Mosel foudres and left it on the lees until nearly the following harvest a slow way to make a wine, and the only way to get this texture. 2021 was a cool, sharply drawn vintage on the river, so this leans taut and mineral rather