Scharzhofberger Riesling Auslese Fuder 9
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2055
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Classic blue cheeses such as Roquefort, artisanal fruit tarts, or rich, savory dishes like foie gras.
✨ Technical Specifications
Egon Müller’s Scharzhofberg is the crown jewel of the Saar valley, a tributary of the Mosel. This legendary estate, managed by the Müller family since 1797 following its confiscation from the Benedictine Abbey of St. Paul during the French Revolution, produces some of the world's most coveted white wines. The Scharzhofberg vineyard itself is a steep, south-facing slope of weathered grey Devonian slate, boasting a cool microclimate that allows Riesling grapes to ripen slowly while retaining electric acidity. The 'Fuder 9' designation indicates a specific, highly prized cask bottling, often reserved for the historic Trier wine auctions. This Auslese is crafted from meticulously hand-selected, botrytised grapes, resulting in a wine of breathtaking tension, where intense, honeyed sweetness is perfectly counterbalanced by a crystalline, saline minerality and vibrant acidity.
🍾 About the Producer
Weingut Egon Müller-Scharzhof, established in 1797 following the secularization of monastic holdings along the Saar, stands as a paragon of classical German viticulture. Situated in Wiltingen within the cooler Mosel tributary corridor, the estate centers upon the world-renowned Scharzhofberg and Le Gallais' monopole parcel in Wiltinger Braune Kupp. These south-facing, steep amphitheaters feature weathered Devonian grey and red slate interspersed with quartzite and iron-rich veins. Viticulture follows traditional, sustainable principles emphasizing rigorous plow cultivation, absence of chemical fertilizers or herbicides, low yields, and preservation of centenarian ungrafted vines. Winemaker Egon Müller IV champions a purist, non-interventionist cellar ethos where wild yeasts, traditional neutral oak fuders, and unmanipulated fermentation dictate pace. Famed for benchmark Spätlese, Auslese, and celestial botrytized Prädikat bottlings—including world-record Trockenbeerenauslesen—the wines exude filigreed tension, soaring mineral salinity, ethereal residual sweetness, and virtually limitless longevity.
🍇 Grapes
100% Riesling