Scharzhofberger Riesling Spatlese Nr38
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2045
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Spicy Asian dishes such as Thai green curry, rich roasted duck with fruit-based reduction, or artisanal blue cheeses.
✨ Technical Specifications
Egon Müller’s Scharzhofberg Riesling Spätlese is one of the most revered white wines in the world, originating from the legendary Scharzhofberg vineyard in the cool Saar valley of the Mosel region. This historic estate, managed by the Müller family since 1797 after being seized from the Benedictine monastery of St. Paul during the French Revolution, benefits from deep, weathered grey slate soils and steep, south-facing slopes. The 'Nr 38' designation refers to a highly coveted, limited-production auction bottling representing an exceptional parcel or cask selection. Crafted from 100% Riesling, often including extremely old, ungrafted vines, the wine is fermented in traditional neutral oak fuders. It showcases a breathtaking tension between residual sweetness and piercing, electric acidity, wrapped in intense slate minerality and complex notes of white peach, petrol, and white flowers.
🍾 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.