Scharzhofberger Riesling Beerenauslese Nr11
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2060
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Blue cheese, foie gras, apricot tart
✨ Technical Specifications
Hailing from the world-renowned Scharzhofberg vineyard in the Saar valley, this Beerenauslese represents the pinnacle of noble sweet Riesling. The Scharzhofberg hill, with its deep Devonian slate soils and cool, wind-swept microclimate, yields grapes with an extraordinary balance of intense sweetness and vibrant, electric acidity. Reichsgraf von Kesselstatt, an estate with over 650 years of history, meticulously hand-harvests botrytized berries grape by grape to craft this rare elixir. The wine is characterized by its luscious notes of candied apricot, honeyed peach, and exotic spices, all underpinned by a profound, crystalline minerality and a legendary tension that ensures it never feels heavy.
🍾 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.