SKURNIK WINES® Selbach Oster Riesling Kabinett Halbtrocken Zeltinger Himmelreich 2018 (Mosel, Germany) – [WA 93] [VM 92] [WS 92] – 6045450567839

Ratings & Reviews

93 Points – Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate:
“The 2018 Zeltinger Himmelreich Riesling Kabinett halbtrocken displays a bright yet intense bouquet with finely weathered and flinty slate and dried white fruit aromas. Juicy, piquant and salty on the palate, this is a round and charming yet intense, persistently crystalline and elegant Kabinett with a long and harmonious but tensioned, slightly bitter finish. Excellent. Tasted at the domain in September 2020.” – Stephan Reinhardt (October 2020)

92 Points – Vinous Media:
“This perennially over-performing bottling does not disappoint in 2018. (After composing this tasting note, I noticed that the wine’s importer commenced his note on this 2018 with the words “perennially outstanding.”) Like a few other Selbach-Oster 2018s, though, it shows a surprisingly high-toned suggestion of fruit distillates to accompany its scents of fresh apple, pear, lime and wet stone. Flowers emerge only inner-mouth, but then in billowing profusion: clover and apple blossom, predominantly. The texture is subtly creamy (more like what I would anticipate from a Zeltinger Sonnenuhr) but also infectiously juicy. Nut and vanilla notes – perhaps partly a reflection of there being fuder involved here (whereas this bottling was long dominated by tank lots) – add appeal to a buoyant and juicy but also seriously stony finish. This will make an excellent keeper, though lamentably few people are apt to test that claim.” – David Schildknecht (August 2020)

92 Points – Wine Spectator:
“This shows a classic Mosel profile, with floral and orchard fruit notes, but also the character of the warm vintage, showing a bit more weight and concentration. Very well-balanced and open now, offering charming hints of yellow apple, quince and elderflower. Zesty and long. Drink now through 2030. 182 cases imported.” — AZ (March 2020)