Kaseler Nies'chen Riesling Eiswein
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2055
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Blue cheese, fruit-based tarts, or enjoyed on its own as a digestif.
✨ Technical Specifications
Hailing from the legendary Kaseler Nies'chen vineyard in the cool Ruwer valley, this rare Eiswein is a testament to extreme viticulture and natural alchemy. The vineyard's steep, south-facing slopes of weathered blue Devonian slate impart a distinctive, fine-veined minerality and electric acidity to the Riesling grapes. To craft this liquid gold, healthy grapes are left on the vine into the depths of winter, risking loss to birds and weather, until temperatures plunge to at least -7 degrees Celsius. Harvested by hand in the freezing pre-dawn hours and pressed while still frozen, only the highly concentrated, sugary nectar is extracted, leaving the water behind as ice. The resulting wine is a breathtaking balance of luscious sweetness and piercing, vibrant acidity, showcasing notes of candied citrus, honeyed stone fruits, and a crystalline mineral finish.
🍾 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.