Scharzhofberger Riesling Spatlese Nr39
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2045
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Spicy Sichuan or Thai cuisine, roasted duck with stone fruit glaze, and artisanal blue cheeses.
✨ Technical Specifications
Deep in the cool Saar valley of the Mosel region lies the legendary Scharzhofberg, a vineyard of mythical status whose viticultural history dates back to the Benedictine monks of St. Pauli in the medieval era. Since 1797, the Müller family has safeguarded this terroir, crafting some of the world's most collectable white wines. The Scharzhofberger Riesling Spätlese 'Nr 39' represents a highly prized, often auction-exclusive bottling of singular purity. Grown on weathered grey and red Devonian slate soils, the 100% Riesling grapes benefit from a cool microclimate that preserves electric acidity. Fermented with indigenous yeasts in traditional neutral oak fuders, this wine represents the pinnacle of Mosel tension—balancing intense natural sweetness with a vibrant, crystalline mineral spine and notes of white peach, petrol, and wet stone.
🍾 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.