Trockenbeerenauslese

Trockeneerenauslese is a German wine term and type of dessert wine meaning "selected dried berries". Often abbreviated to TBA.

This means that the grapes have been individually picked and are shrivelled with noble rot. They are therefore very sweet and rich, with a lot of the honeyed taste of the noble rot. The finest examples are made from the riesling grape, as this retains significant acidity even with the extreme ripeness, but other grape varieties can be used, and many are more prone to rot than riesling.

These wines are very rare and expensive.

This category is roughly equivalent to selection de grains nobles in Alsace.

It is also used (since the 1960s) in Austria for the same type of wines.

Also compare beerenauslese and eiswein.