Selbach-Oster Riesling Zeltinger Alte Reben Trocken 2021 070226ROBUST it becomes something else: medium-bodied

it becomes something else: medium-bodied

Paternoster has been working the black volcanic soils around the town of Barile since 1925

and allspice

but with the freshness dial cranked up

20% Meunier

Selbach-Oster Riesling Zeltinger Alte Reben Trocken 2021 070226ROBUST it becomes something else: medium-bodiedThis was the first one. 2021 marked the debut of Selbach Oster's Alte Reben trocken, a dry Riesling built entirely from the estate's oldest vines in Zeltingen. Johannes Selbach and his son Sebastian aged it in the classic big Mosel foudres and left it on the lees until nearly the following harvest a slow way to make a wine, and the only way to get this texture. 2021 was a cool, sharply drawn vintage on the river, so this leans taut and mineral rather