Bernkasteler Doctor Riesling Auslese
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2055
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Blue cheese, glazed roasted duck, or fruit-based desserts like peach tart.
✨ Technical Specifications
The Bernkasteler Doctor is one of the wine world's most legendary vineyards, a brutally steep, south-facing slope of devonian blue slate rising majestically above the town of Bernkastel. According to a famous 14th-century legend, Prince-Bishop Boemund II of Trier was cured of a terminal illness not by his physicians, but by drinking a cask of wine from this very hill, leading him to declare the vineyard the 'true doctor.' Reichsgraf von Kesselstatt's Auslese from this historic site is a masterclass in Mosel Riesling. Crafted from meticulously hand-selected, botrytis-affected grapes, the wine undergoes a slow, cool fermentation to preserve its delicate aromatics. It beautifully captures the site's unique microclimate and slate terroir, balancing luscious, concentrated sweetness with a piercing, mineral-driven acidity.
🍾 About the Producer
With a documented winemaking legacy dating back to 1349, Reichsgraf von Kesselstatt is one of the most historic and revered wine estates in Germany's Mosel region. Headquartered at Schloss Marienlay in the Ruwer valley and owned by the Reh family since 1978, the estate holds an extraordinary footprint spanning the three distinct river valleys of the Mosel, Saar, and Ruwer. Dedicated almost exclusively to steep-slope Riesling cultivation, the winery stewards world-renowned VDP.Grosse Lage vineyard sites such as the Saar's Scharzhofberger, the Ruwer's Kaseler Nies'chen, and their historic Mosel monopole, Josephshöfer. Reichsgraf von Kesselstatt is celebrated for crafting site-expressive, mineral-driven Rieslings that range from vibrant dry expressions to profound, age-worthy noble sweet Prädikat wines.