Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Spatlese
⏳ Drinking Window
2020 - 2035
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Spicy Thai curry, roasted pork with apples, blue cheese
✨ Technical Specifications
The Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Spätlese from Selbach-Oster is a liquid testament to one of the Mosel's most legendary grand cru vineyards. Named after the historic sundial erected in 1842 by Jodocus Prüm to guide vineyard workers, the Wehlener Sonnenuhr is renowned for its dizzyingly steep slopes of weathered blue Devonian slate. This unique terroir, combined with the cooling influence of the Mosel River, coaxes an extraordinary tension of ripe stone fruit and electric minerality from the Riesling grapes. Selbach-Oster crafts this Spätlese using traditional, low-intervention methods, fermenting with indigenous yeasts in large, neutral oak Fuder casks. The resulting wine is a masterclass in balance, where the natural sweetness of late-harvested fruit is perfectly countered by a spine of vibrant, laser-like acidity, offering notes of white peach, green apple, wet stone, and a delicate floral perfume that gains complex petrol notes with age.
🍾 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.