Selbach-Oster Mosel Riesling Zeltinger Sonnenuhr Kabinett 2023 JULY4 fleshy fruit -- plums

fleshy fruit -- plums

exactly the right amount for one person at the table

what's in the bottle is effectively a Ponsot Griotte — same hands

and crushed stones

Selbach-Oster Mosel Riesling Zeltinger Sonnenuhr Kabinett 2023 JULY4 fleshy fruit -- plumsKabinett is the Mosel's greatest trick: a wine under 10% alcohol that tastes gently sweet and yet finishes utterly refreshing. Selbach Oster draws this one mostly from the Zeltinger Sonnenuhr, the steep blue slate sundial slope that is about as good as Mosel real estate gets, and ferments it naturally in old Fuder, the big neutral casks the region has leaned on for generations. The Selbachs have been doing this in Zeltingen for something like 400