Scharzhofberger Riesling TBA Nr10
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2075
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Blue cheeses such as Roquefort, rich foie gras, or simply savored on its own as a meditation wine.
✨ Technical Specifications
Egon Müller’s Scharzhofberg Riesling Trockenbeerenauslese (TBA) represents the absolute pinnacle of sweet winemaking, born from one of the wine world's most hallowed terroirs. Situated in the Saar valley, a cool tributary of the Mosel, the steep, slate-rich Scharzhofberg vineyard has a viticultural history dating back to medieval monks from the Abbey of St. Paul in Trier. The Müller family has stewarded this legendary estate since 1797. This TBA is an extraordinary rarity, produced only in exceptional vintages when autumn conditions allow Botrytis cinerea (noble rot) to slowly shrivel the Riesling grapes into intensely concentrated, nectar-like raisins. Hand-harvested berry by berry with obsessive precision, the wine is fermented in traditional old oak Fuder casks. The resulting elixir is a breathtaking balance of luscious, honeyed sweetness and electric, vibrant acidity, reflecting the cool Saar microclimate and the deep minerality of its ancient slate soils.
🍾 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