2005 Selbach-Oster Zeltinger Schlossberg Riesling Auslese - Germany, Mosel Saar Ruwer (12/15/2020)
Ten years ago I didn't care for this wine. It was too big for its britches - too much sugar, too much botrytis, too much of too much. Ten years later it's still a beast, but maybe I have come to appreciate it for that. It drinks like a small beerenauslese, so I treat it as a small beerenauslese. Honey, tropical fruit, oodles of richness - it's a 3 liter bottle of wine packed into a 750 ml. Not something I would drink every day, unless I wanted to bathe in its richness as I slowly slipped away into a Riesling coma, but when there's spicy Thai food on the table it can sure handle the heat!
