Scharzhofberger Spatlese Riesling Nr18
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2050
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Spicy Asian dishes such as Thai curry, roasted duck with fruit-based glazes, and classic German apple tarts.
✨ Technical Specifications
The Scharzhofberg vineyard is one of the world's most revered white wine terroirs, situated on a steep, south-facing slope of weathered grey Devonian slate in the Saar valley, a cool-climate tributary of the Mosel. Owned in part by the legendary Egon Müller estate since 1797—following the secularization of church lands formerly held by the Benedictine Abbey of St. Paul in Trier—this vineyard yields Riesling of unparalleled tension and longevity. The Scharzhofberger Spätlese is crafted from 100% Riesling grapes, often partially affected by noble rot, and fermented in traditional old oak Fuder casks. This wine is celebrated for its breathtaking balance of natural residual sweetness, electric acidity, and profound slate-driven minerality, representing the pinnacle of traditional German winemaking.
🍾 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.