Zeltinger Schlossberg Riesling Auslese Rotlay
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2042
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Blue cheese, Glazed roast duck, Peach tart
✨ Technical Specifications
Hailing from the heart of the Mosel, the Zeltinger Schlossberg 'Rotlay' Auslese is a legendary expression of Riesling from one of Selbach-Oster's most prized parcels. The 'Rotlay' is a historic, extremely steep sub-plot of the Schlossberg vineyard, characterized by its iron-rich, weathered blue Devonian slate and ancient, ungrafted vines. This unique terroir imparts a distinct reddish tint to the soil and a profound mineral complexity to the wine. Johannes Selbach employs traditional, low-intervention winemaking, allowing the hand-harvested, botrytis-affected grapes to ferment naturally with wild yeasts in classic, large oak Fuder casks. The resulting Auslese is a masterclass in balance, where intense, luscious sweetness of stone fruits and wild honey is perfectly countered by a vibrant, electric vein of slate-driven acidity, ensuring remarkable longevity and evolution.
🍾 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.