Graacher Domprobst Riesling Beerenauslese
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2060
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Blue cheese, apricot tart, rich duck liver pâté
✨ Technical Specifications
The Graacher Domprobst vineyard, named after the cathedral provost who historically collected tithes from this prized site, is renowned for its steep, blue Devonian slate slopes and exceptional water-retaining clay veins. This Beerenauslese from Selbach-Oster is a rare, sweet masterpiece crafted only in exceptional vintages. It is made from 100% Riesling grapes meticulously selected berry-by-berry as they shrivel under the influence of noble rot (botrytis). Fermented slowly using indigenous yeasts, the wine captures the essence of its terroir, balancing opulent, honeyed sweetness with a piercing, mineral-driven acidity. It represents the pinnacle of traditional Mosel winemaking, showcasing intense notes of dried stone fruits, exotic spices, and a distinct slate minerality.
🍾 About the Producer
Weingut Selbach-Oster represents over four centuries of winemaking heritage along Germany's Middle Mosel, with family viticultural roots established in 1661. Based in Zeltingen-Rachtig, proprietors Johannes and Barbara Selbach, alongside their son Sebastian, steward approximately 23 hectares of precipitous, south-facing slopes. Their historic holdings encompass quintessential Grand Cru sites including Zeltinger Sonnenuhr, Zeltinger Schlossberg, Zeltinger Himmelreich, Wehlener Sonnenuhr, and Graacher Domprobst. Characterized by weathered Devonian blue and grey slate soils, over half the estate's vines are ungrafted, centenarian rootstocks farmed with rigorous sustainable and low-intervention methods. In the cellar, Selbach-Oster champions unhurried native yeast fermentations carried out in neutral German oak Fuder casks and temperature-controlled stainless steel. The resulting wines—spanning bone-dry Grosses Gewächs bottlings, nuanced Feinherb styles, and pristine Prädikat sweet wines—epitomize classical Mosel tension, showcasing crystalline acidity, wet-slate minerality, pristine orchard fruit, and exceptional longevity.