Scharzhofberger Riesling Auslese Nr19
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2055
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Foie gras, artisanal blue cheeses, and classic fruit tarts or stone-fruit based desserts.
✨ Technical Specifications
The Scharzhofberg vineyard in the Saar valley is legendary, a grand cru site whose fame is so vast that it is one of the few German vineyards permitted to omit the village name from its label. Under the stewardship of the Egon Müller estate, which has guided these slopes since the late 18th century following its confiscation from monastic orders during the French Revolution, this wine represents the absolute pinnacle of Mosel Riesling. The Auslese is crafted from late-harvested grapes, often touched by noble rot, grown on steep, weathered grey slate soils and fermented naturally in traditional old oak Fuder casks. The result is a wine of breathtaking tension, balancing intense, honeyed sweetness with an electric, mineral-driven 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.