Selbach Oster Riesling Spätlese - Graacher Himmelreich 2006

Purchase Selbach Oster Riesling Spätlese - Graacher Himmelreich 2006

"With a lovely nose reminiscent of Normandy cider, the 2006 Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Spatlese displays lovely lightness and lift on the palate, with apple, lime, and brown spices conveying a fully ripe but surprisingly fresh, sappy, even snappy personality. Against such a backdrop, the hint of creaminess of texture and deep, cashew-like sweet nuttiness only add to this wine’s charm. This delicate and refined expression of its site and vintage will reward at least 15 years’ cellaring, even though scarcely anyone will put that prognosis or this wine to the test. 

The harvest almost filled the month of October, but by the standards of this large estate with holdings stretching across four communes, that is (in Johannes Selbach’s words) “super quick” and volume was down 30% from the already small 2005 harvest. Musts were sometimes fined with bentonite but never with charcoal. “This is my year of superlatives,” says Selbach. “When I think of my children and their children, and about a wine one could open in a hundred years and say ‘Wow!’ one dreams of wines from great historical vintages like 1911, 1921, 1953 ... and that in one’s own lifetime one might experience and harvest wines that would number among them. For me, that’s 2006.” Selbach took an interest in Pinot Blanc for sparkling wine, since there are some promising old vines in cooler side locations of Zeltingen’s Schlossberg. But he now thinks the fruit will probably always be too ripe for that purpose, whereas the still results are themselves promising."

Purchase Selbach Oster Riesling Spätlese - Graacher Himmelreich 2006

• SKU: GER068

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