Scharzhofberger Riesling Spatlese Versteigerung 6
⏳ Drinking Window
2023 - 2045
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Spicy Sichuan or Thai cuisine, glazed roasted duck, and artisanal blue cheeses.
✨ Technical Specifications
Egon Müller's Scharzhofberger Riesling Spätlese Versteigerung represents the absolute pinnacle of the Saar valley's winemaking heritage. The legendary Scharzhofberg vineyard, with its steep, south-facing slopes of weathered grey Devonian slate, has been revered since monastic times, when it was cultivated by the Abbey of St. Paul in Trier. This specific bottling is an 'Auction' (Versteigerung) wine, selected from the estate's finest casks to be sold exclusively at the annual VDP auction in Trier. Crafted from 100% Riesling, often from extremely old, ungrafted vines, the wine undergoes a natural fermentation in traditional oak Fuder. The result is a breathtakingly complex white wine that marries electric, crystalline acidity with delicate residual sweetness, showcasing intense slate minerality, white peach, and wild floral notes.
🍾 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