Albert Gessinger Zeltinger Sonnenuhr Riesling Auslese ** Alte Rebe “Caldo Infernale” 2010 – 8,5% abv; c.18€; Mosel
Well, what can I say: this is what a ** Riesling Auslese from Mosel should be like. Points for typicity. The scent is just heartbreakingly pure. It’s clean, it’s interesting, it draws you in and makes you want to take another sniff, it makes you smile and it makes you happy. And it is so true to 2010’s style: the palate is big, it’s yuuuge (sorry for the Trump reference – the wine is infinitely better than Trump), yet it is also high in acidity. I guess 2010 for Mosel Riesling is a bit like 1996 for Champagne: big fruit, big acidity, big ripeness, big everything including how yuuuugely (shit! I did it again!) well all these components work together. This wine pretty much trumps (fuuuuck! not again!) every other wine I’ve had in ages. Whoever first thought of the cliché that Mosel Riesling is sunshine in a glass was right. But it’s more than that. Normally I’m not into medical conspiracy theories, but I think Big pHARMa is hiding Mosel Riesling 2010s from us because they’d go bankrupt due to declining sales in antidepressants. (Where’s my tinfoil hat? I need it now!)