Zeltinger Sonnenuhr Riesling Beerenauslese 1*
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2060
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Blue cheese, fruit-based tarts, and rich pâté.
✨ Technical Specifications
The Zeltinger Sonnenuhr (Sundial) vineyard is one of the Mosel's most legendary grand cru sites, named after the historic sundial erected in the vineyard cliffs in 1620 by Abbot Johannes Cardon to guide the workers. Selbach-Oster's Beerenauslese 1* is a rare, sweet masterpiece crafted from 100% Riesling grapes grown on these precipitously steep, blue Devonian slate slopes. The 'one-star' (1*) designation signifies a parcel of exceptional selection and concentration. This wine is produced only in vintages where noble rot (Botrytis cinerea) develops perfectly, requiring painstaking berry-by-berry hand harvesting. Fermented slowly to preserve its intense aromatic profile, the wine balances luscious, honeyed sweetness with the Mosel's signature electric, slate-driven acidity.
🍾 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.