Wiltinger Braune Kupp Riesling Spatlese
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Typically best enjoyed from 10 to 30 years after the vintage, though top years can easily cellar for half a century.
🍽️ wine.food_pairings
Glazed roast pork belly, spicy Thai or Sichuan cuisine, and mature blue cheeses.
✨ wine.spec_sheet
Crafted by the legendary Egon Müller estate under the Le Gallais label, the Wiltinger Braune Kupp Riesling Spätlese represents one of the Saar valley's most historic terroirs. The Braune Kupp, or 'brown hillock', is a steep, south-facing vineyard overlooking the Saar River, famed for its iron-rich, reddish-brown slate soil. The Müller family acquired a majority share of this exceptional vineyard in 1954, continuing a legacy of meticulous, traditional winemaking. Fermented in traditional neutral oak Fuder casks using indigenous yeasts, this 100% Riesling showcases a brilliant tension between rich, natural residual sweetness and a piercing, electric acidity. It is renowned for its signature smoky minerality, stone fruit aromatics, and incredible longevity.
🍾 wine.about_producer
Established in 1797 when the Müller family acquired the historic estate, Weingut Egon Müller-Scharzhof is located in Wiltingen within the Saar sub-region of the Mosel, Germany. Today, the estate is meticulously managed by Egon Müller IV, who continues a multi-generational legacy of producing some of the world's most coveted and long-lived white wines. The winery is legendary for its peerless Rieslings sourced from the steep, slate-rich slopes of the iconic Scharzhofberg vineyard, as well as the Wiltinger Braune Kupp site under the Le Gallais label. Emphasizing traditional, low-intervention cellar practices and old, ungrafted vines, Egon Müller crafts exceptionally precise, mineral-driven, and exquisitely balanced Rieslings ranging from crisp QbA to legendary, auction-grade Auslese and Trockenbeerenauslese expressions.