Josephshofer Riesling Auslese Goldkaspel
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2050
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roquefort or other pungent blue cheeses, rich duck liver pâté, and classic fruit tarts like tarte Tatin.
✨ Technical Specifications
The Josephshof is one of the Mosel's most legendary monopole vineyards, located in the village of Graach. Originally owned by the Benedictine Abbey of St. Martin in Trier since the 12th century, this historic site was acquired by the Reichsgraf von Kesselstatt family in 1858. The Josephshofer Riesling Auslese Goldkaspel (a historical designation for Goldkapsel) represents the pinnacle of this unique terroir. Grown on deep, moisture-retaining Devonian slate soils, the 100% Riesling grapes benefit from a perfect microclimate that fosters noble rot. The Goldkapsel designation indicates an Auslese of exceptional concentration, sweetness, and complexity, selected by hand-harvesting only the most perfectly botrytized berries. Fermented slowly to preserve its delicate aromatics, the resulting wine is a masterclass in balance, marrying luscious honeyed sweetness with a vibrant, electric spine of slate-driven acidity and notes of dried apricots, saffron, and wild honey.
🍾 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.