Piesporter Goldtropchen Riesling Beerenauslese
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2060
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Blue cheese, foie gras, and apricot tart.
✨ Technical Specifications
The Piesporter Goldtröpfchen, or 'droplets of gold,' is one of the Mosel's most legendary grand cru vineyards, renowned since Roman times for its dramatic, south-facing amphitheater that hugs a sweeping bend of the river. This unique topography traps warmth and moisture, creating the ideal conditions for Botrytis cinerea (noble rot). Reichsgraf von Kesselstatt harnesses this exceptional terroir to produce their rare Beerenauslese, a luscious sweet wine crafted from painstakingly hand-selected, shriveled berries. Fermented slowly to preserve purity, the wine showcases the striking tension between rich, honeyed tropical fruit and the intense, electric minerality derived from the steep Devonian slate soils.
🍾 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.