Spätlese (literal meaning: "late harvest") is a German wine term for a late harvest wine and is the second category of QmP wine in the German wine classification above kabinett and below auslese in terms of ripeness. The grapes are picked later in the harvest so they are riper and have a higher must weight. Because of the weather, waiting to pick the grapes later carries a risk of the crop being ruined by rain. However in warm years and from good sites much of the harvest will reach spätlese level.

The wines may be either sweet or dry (trocken); it is a level of ripeness that particularly suits rich dry wines from riesling, weisser burgunder and grauer burgunder grapes for example, as at auslese levels the alcohol levels may become very high in a dry wine leaving the wine unbalanced, making wines with at least some residual sweetness preferable to most palates.

Many spätlese wines will age well, especially those made from the riesling grape.