2018 Markus Molitor Zeltinger Schlossberg Spätlese

The Zeltinger Schlossberg is the slope adjacent to the Zeltinger sundial. So top of the top. It is the steepest section of this slope from which the wine is obtained, over 80 years old root-true vines in single stake education with the most extreme orientation. Unlike the Zeltinger Sonnenuhr, the Schlossberg is more clearly at home in the slate. The nose is clearly dominated by flint, wet slate. Stone, minerality and salt in the foreground. The whole thing is underpinned by a flower meadow, mirabelle, light reneklode, also a bit of quince, a touch of orange peel and lime underneath. More to the mineral than to the citrus fruit. Molitor loves the elegance, loves the minerality far more than the extreme fruit drive.  Flint and wet granite to it, slate in the most massive form, with fine quince and stone fruit rolling up again.