Zeltinger Sonnenuhr Riesling TBA Nr6
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2075
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Blue cheese, foie gras, apricot tart
✨ Technical Specifications
Crafted only in exceptional vintages when nature allows, the Selbach-Oster Zeltinger Sonnenuhr Riesling Trockenbeerenauslese (TBA) Nr6 represents the pinnacle of Mosel dessert winemaking. The Zeltinger Sonnenuhr (sundial) vineyard, named after the historic sundial erected in 1620 to guide vineyard workers, features incredibly steep slopes of weathered devonian blue slate. To produce this rare nectar, skilled pickers meticulously harvest individually shriveled, botrytis-affected grapes berry by berry. In the cellar, the extremely concentrated juice undergoes a painstakingly slow fermentation, often lasting months, before aging in traditional large oak Fuder casks. The resulting wine is a breathtaking balance of luscious sweetness and vibrant, electric acidity, showing complex notes of dried apricots, honey, and intense 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.