Above the Clouds Pet-Nat
⏳ Drinking Window
2023 - 2025
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Tempura vegetables, fresh oysters, spicy Thai noodles
✨ Technical Specifications
Crafted by the historic Selbach-Oster estate in the Mosel, 'Above the Clouds' (Über den Wolken) Pet-Nat represents a playful, modern nod to ancient sparkling winemaking. This Pétillant Naturel is produced using the ancestral method, where the wine is bottled before its primary fermentation is complete, trapping the natural carbon dioxide to create a gentle, creamy effervescence. Typically a blend of classic cool-climate varieties like Pinot Blanc, Riesling, and Gewürztraminer grown on the region's steep, slate-laden slopes, it is bottled unfiltered and without disgorgement. The name evokes the high-altitude, steep vineyards of the Mosel that often rise above the morning river mists, capturing a whimsical, cloudy, and vibrant expression of the estate's pristine fruit.
🍾 About the Producer
Steeped in centuries of family winemaking tradition along the dramatic slate slopes of the Middle Mosel, Weingut Selbach-Oster represents one of Germany's most distinguished Riesling estates. Managed by Johannes Selbach and his family, the estate meticulously tends prized, steep vineyard parcels across legendary grand cru sites including the Zeltinger Sonnenuhr, Zeltinger Schlossberg, and Wehlener Sonnenuhr, home to significant plantings of ancient, ungrafted vines. Cellar practices emphasize minimal intervention, relying on native yeast fermentations and maturation in traditional large oak Fuder casks to capture pure terroir expression and vibrant acidity. Selbach-Oster is celebrated worldwide for its benchmark, slate-driven Rieslings spanning crisp, mineral-rich Kabinett and Spätlese bottlings to profound, luscious single-vineyard Auslese and rare Eiswein expressions.