Wiltinger Braune Kupp Riesling Spatlese Auktion Nr7
⏳ Drinking Window
2023 - 2045
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Spicy Thai or Sichuan cuisine, classic roasted duck with plum sauce, and artisanal blue cheeses.
✨ Technical Specifications
The Wiltinger Braune Kupp is a legendary steep vineyard situated on a dramatic bend of the Saar River, historically associated with the Le Gallais estate which has been under the stewardship of the Egon Müller family since 1954. Unlike the cool blue slate of Scharzhofberg, the Braune Kupp features iron-rich red slate soils that absorb the sun's warmth, imparting a distinctively exotic, spicy, and deeply structured character to the Riesling. The 'Auktion' designation signifies an elite, extremely limited bottling selected from the estate's finest casks to be sold exclusively at the prestigious annual VDP auction in Trier. Crafted with meticulous hand-selection, gentle pressing, and traditional fermentation in old oak Fuder casks using native yeasts, this Spätlese represents the absolute pinnacle of Saar winemaking, balancing intense natural sweetness with a spine of electric, crystalline acidity.
🍾 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