Scharzhofberger Riesling TBA
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2080
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Blue cheese, foie gras, and fruit-based desserts like apricot tart.
✨ Technical Specifications
Hailing from the world-renowned Scharzhofberg vineyard in the cool Saar valley, this Trockenbeerenauslese (TBA) represents the absolute pinnacle of Reichsgraf von Kesselstatt's winemaking. The vineyard's deep, weathered Devonian slate soils and unique microclimate yield Riesling of unmatched precision and electric acidity. To produce this rare elixir, botrytised grapes are meticulously hand-selected berry by berry late in the autumn. The resulting wine is a masterpiece of concentration, where luscious, honeyed sweetness is perfectly counterbalanced by the Saar's signature vibrant acidity, offering complex aromas of dried apricots, saffron, wild honey, and intense slate minerality.
🍾 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.