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 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.