Scharzhof Gallais Wiltinger Braune Kupp Riesling Auslese Goldkapsel 65
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2050
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Classic blue cheeses such as Roquefort, artisanal fruit tarts or tarte Tatin, and rich duck liver terrine or foie gras.
✨ Technical Specifications
The Wiltinger Braune Kupp vineyard has been historically linked with the Le Gallais estate since the 19th century, eventually coming under the stewardship of the legendary Egon Müller family in 1954. Unlike the grey slate of the nearby Scharzhofberg, the Braune Kupp ('brown hill') is characterized by iron-rich red slate and clay, which imparts a distinctly opulent, exotic fruit character and a spicy mineral undertone to the Riesling. The Auslese Goldkapsel represents an extraordinary selection of botrytized grapes, meticulously hand-harvested berry by berry. Fermented in traditional old oak fuders, this rare bottling—often designated by specific cask numbers like Fuder 65 for wine auctions—is a masterclass in tension, balancing luscious, honeyed sweetness with a piercing, vibrant acidity that is the hallmark of the Saar valley.
🍾 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.