Scharzhofberger Riesling Eiswein Nr12
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2080
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Fruit-based desserts such as pear tarte tatin, artisanal blue cheeses like Roquefort, or rich savory starters like duck liver pâté.
✨ Technical Specifications
Deep in the Saar valley, a tributary of the Mosel, lies the legendary Scharzhofberg vineyard, a grand cru site renowned since medieval times when it was cultivated by the monks of St. Pauli. Here, the Egon Müller estate crafts some of the world's most collectable and ethereal sweet wines. The Scharzhofberger Riesling Eiswein is a rare masterpiece born of extreme nature. It requires temperatures to plummet to at least -7 degrees Celsius so that the grapes freeze on the vine. Harvested by hand in the freezing pre-dawn hours, the frozen grapes are pressed immediately, leaving the water ice behind and extracting a tiny quantity of incredibly concentrated, high-acid nectar. The weathered Devonian slate soils of the Scharzhofberg impart a profound mineral tension that balances the intense natural sweetness of the Riesling grape, resulting in a wine of breathtaking purity, electric acidity, and legendary complexity.
🍾 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.