Selbach Oster Bernkasteler Badstube Riesling Beerenauslese smells of liqueur-like, jellied, vanilla and chocolate covered purple plums and black cherries. The implosive palate concentration though is simply beyond "liqueur-like" and into realms I can't recall. Strong brown spices, herbal concentrates add complexity and a buttery, creamy texture does not prevent this wine from preserving the most remarkable clarity of jellied pit fruit concentration, photo-electric brilliance of fruit acids lighting the way to an endless finish. It may not be the most complex Beerenauslese today, but give it time! Is this a "fifty year" wine ... "seventy"...? All that matters is to decide whether you want to greedily take it with you to the grave or pass some on. The Germans have an expression: "So was kurz vorm Sterben" - "to experience such a thing shorly before dying." This wine is one of those things. -Wine Advocate # 179, Oct 2008, David Schildknecht, Score: 96