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 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.
🍇 Grape Varieties
100% Riesling