Scharzhofberger Riesling Auslese Nr6
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2050
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Classic blue cheeses such as Roquefort, rich foie gras, and fruit-based desserts like a traditional peach or pear tart.
✨ Technical Specifications
Deep in the Saar valley, a tributary of the Mosel, lies the legendary Scharzhofberg vineyard, a place of viticultural pilgrimage. Here, the Egon Müller estate crafts what are widely considered the world's finest Rieslings. The estate's history is steeped in lore, tracing back to medieval monks before being acquired by Jean-Jacques Koch during the French Revolution; his descendants, the Müller family, have preserved this legacy since 1797. The Scharzhofberg vineyard itself is a steep, south-facing amphitheater of grey and red Devonian slate, possessing a cool microclimate that allows grapes to ripen slowly while retaining electric acidity. The 'Auslese Nr. 6' is a rare, highly coveted auction bottling, crafted only in exceptional vintages from meticulously hand-selected, botrytis-affected grapes. Fermented in traditional old oak fuders using native yeasts, this 100% Riesling is a masterclass in tension, balancing luscious, honeyed sweetness with a crystalline, saline minerality that is uniquely Scharzhofberg.
🍾 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