Selbach-Oster Riesling Rotlay Zeltinger Sonnenuhr 2010 750ml

Terry Theise notes: "This is a relative giant. It will take years to exhale its deep held breath, as if it comes from the belly of a blue whale. Picked en bloc with 145? Oechsle, I mean, come on! You don't cut it with a knife and fork, you take a jackhammer to it." Leif Sundström writes: "There is sinfully clean botrytis hues on the nose, with sweet/cool sponti; fuzzy pineapple tones, melting peach, living changing fruit. This is wild for sure. The wine strikes with crystalized, clean fruit. The wine has intensely coiled concentration, with pronounced apricot, pineapple, and golden apple fruit, but still with that green apple skin tartness keeping a firm guard rail on the palate. This concentration has momentum, energy, and direction therefore not weighty or broad at all. Subtle sponti flavors are perfectly integrated into the creamy texture here and also married to the long fruit that finishes with such energetic spice and a cooling tone, a mint stem essence. Of the single parcel wines this is the most fully blossomed at the moment but with still a helluva lot to unfold. This wine is seeking something, and confident it will find it." SOS:3