Scharzhofberger Riesling Eiswein
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2080
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Classic blue cheeses such as Roquefort, fruit-based desserts like pear tart or apple tarte tatin, or enjoyed on its own as a digestif.
✨ Technical Specifications
Egon Müller’s Scharzhofberger Riesling Eiswein represents the absolute pinnacle of sweet winemaking, born from one of the world's most revered vineyards. Located in the cool Saar valley of the Mosel region, the steep Scharzhofberg hill features deep, weathered grey slate soils that impart a distinct mineral tension. The history of the estate is steeped in lore, tracing back to medieval monks before being acquired by the Müller family in 1797 following the French Revolution. To produce this rare Eiswein, grapes must freeze naturally on the vine, typically requiring temperatures of at least minus seven degrees Celsius. Harvested in the freezing pre-dawn hours, the grapes are pressed while still frozen, concentrating the sugars, acids, and minerals into a nectar of unparalleled intensity, vibrancy, and 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.