Wiltingen Braun Kupp Riesling Auselese Goldkapsel

⏳ Drinking Window

2030 - 2060

🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings

Rich artisanal blue cheeses, classic foie gras terrine, and fruit-based desserts like apple tarte tatin.

✨ Technical Specifications

Produced by the legendary Egon Mller under the Le Gallais estate, which the Mller family acquired in 1954, this wine comes from the steep, south-facing Wiltinger Braune Kupp vineyard along the Saar River. The vineyard's name, meaning 'brown hillock,' refers to its unique, iron-rich reddish-brown Devonian slate soils. This 100% Riesling Auslese Goldkapsel is a masterpiece of selection, crafted only in exceptional years from grapes heavily affected by noble rot (botrytis). Hand-harvested with obsessive care, it undergoes traditional fermentation in neutral oak Fuder casks. The resulting wine is a sublime tension of luscious, honeyed sweetness and electric, slate-driven acidity, showcasing notes of candied citrus, dried stone fruits, and a profound, smoky minerality.

🍾 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.

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