Bernkasteler Doctor Riesling Eiswein
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2070
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Blue cheese, Fruit-based tarts (such as apple tarte tatin), Foie gras
✨ Technical Specifications
The Bernkasteler Doctor vineyard is one of the world's most legendary wine-growing sites, steeped in 14th-century folklore where its wines supposedly cured the terminally ill Prince-Bishop Boemund II of Trier. Reichsgraf von Kesselstatt's parcel in this ultra-steep, south-facing sanctuary of weathered Devonian blue slate yields a Riesling of extraordinary intensity. To produce this rare Eiswein, healthy grapes are left on the vine into the depths of winter, waiting for temperatures to plummet to at least -7 degrees Celsius. Harvested by hand in the freezing pre-dawn hours, the grapes are pressed while still frozen, leaving the water behind as ice and extracting a precious, highly concentrated nectar. The resulting wine is a masterclass in balance, marrying luscious, honeyed sweetness with the electric, laser-like acidity characteristic of the Mosel.
🍾 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.