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
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.