2006 Selbach-Oster Bernkasteler Badstube Riesling Beerenauslese
Opened just because my wife and I wanted to enjoy a lovely wine together in this holiday season. This certainly fit the bill with more layers than croissant dough & more complexity than molecular physics. Pineapple, brown sugar, vanilla, pastry cream, clove, honey, cherry, peach, overwhelming minerality & an element of clear, glacial stream from the purity of expression all combined into something that can only be described as an elixir. It's more than wine. Initially it's quite weighty in the mouth, but after a few seconds the acidity & purity of fruit just lift the wine from the palate. It disappears, leaving only a sense memory that haunts like a familiar ghost. Our half bottle was gone much too soon, though I doubt a magnum would have lasted much longer.