Kanta Riesling
⏳ Drinking Window
Typically best enjoyed 3 to 10 years from the vintage, though high-quality cellaring can easily extend its life up to 15 years.
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Fresh oysters, spicy Thai green curry, pan-seared trout
✨ Technical Specifications
Kanta is a fascinating cross-continental collaboration that brings the peerless Riesling expertise of Mosel legend Egon Müller IV to the cool-climate terroirs of South Australia. Intrigued by the potential of Australian Riesling, Müller partnered with Adelaide wine retailer Michael Andrewartha to create a dry, texturally complex expression of the grape. Sourced primarily from premium, cool-climate vineyards in the Adelaide Hills, Kanta is crafted using traditional German winemaking philosophies. Unlike many classic, highly acidic Australian Rieslings, Kanta undergoes a period of skin contact, wild yeast fermentation, and extended lees contact before release. This deliberate, patient approach results in a wine that beautifully bridges the gap between Old World complexity and New World fruit intensity, offering a beautifully textured, mineral-driven profile with notes of citrus peel, flint, and subtle spice.
🍾 About the Producer
Weingut Egon Müller-Scharzhof traces its heritage to 1797 when Jean-Jacques Koch acquired the historic estate, nestled in Wiltingen along the Saar valley within Germany's famed Mosel region. Handed down across generations, the estate is celebrated globally under the stewardship of Egon Müller IV, who maintains a deeply traditional approach emphasizing pristine vineyard management, late harvesting, and minimal cellar intervention. The estate is crowned by its holdings in the legendary Scharzhofberg vineyard, home to pre-phylloxera, ungrafted Riesling vines grown on steep, slate soils. Egon Müller is globally acclaimed for producing arguably the purest, most ageworthy, and aristocratic sweet Rieslings in existence, ranging from exquisite Spätlese and Auslese to mythical, auction-commanding Trockenbeerenauslese expressions.
🍇 Grape Varieties
Riesling
🍷 Alcohol By Volume (ABV)
12% - 13%