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
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.