Scharzhofberger Riesling Auslese Nr8
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2050
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Blue cheese, foie gras, and classic peach or apricot tarts.
✨ Technical Specifications
Hailing from the legendary, slate-clad slopes of the Scharzhofberg vineyard in the cool Saar valley, Egon Müller's Riesling Auslese is the stuff of wine lore. The 'Nr8' designation refers to an exceptionally rare, small-batch auction bottling, historically associated with specific Fuder casks or AP numbers, representing the absolute zenith of botrytized Riesling. Sourced from ancient, sometimes ungrafted vines, the grapes are meticulously hand-selected berry by berry. Vinified in traditional old oak casks with minimal intervention, this masterpiece juxtaposes intense, honeyed tropical fruit and noble rot with a breathtaking, electric spine of slate-driven acidity. It is a legendary nectar that captures the cold, wind-swept terroir of the Saar in its most sublime, concentrated form.
🍾 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