Goldberg Riesling Grosse Lage
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2040
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
roasted duck, spicy Asian cuisine, seared scallops
✨ Technical Specifications
The Wawerner Goldberg, or 'Golden Hill,' is one of the Saar's most historic and unique vineyards, prized since the 19th century when Prussian tax maps rated it among the region's finest terroirs. Unlike the blue slate dominant in much of the Mosel, the Goldberg is characterized by iron-rich red slate, quartz, and fertile loam. This distinct soil composition, combined with a warm south-facing microclimate, yields a Riesling of extraordinary texture and exotic complexity. Van Volxem crafts this Grosse Lage wine using traditional, low-intervention methods, including spontaneous fermentation with indigenous yeasts in large, neutral oak fuder casks. The resulting wine is a masterclass in balance, marrying the Saar's signature electric acidity with a rich, mineral-drenched palate of yellow stone fruits and wild herbs.
🍾 About the Producer
Perched dramatically above the Saar River in Wiltingen, Weingut Van Volxem is one of Germany's most heralded historic wine estates. Originating as a Roman villa complex with viticulture traced back to the 3rd century, the property operated as a Jesuit monastery winery established in 1743 before being acquired post-secularization by Brussels brewer Gustav van Volxem. In late 1999, Roman Niewodniczanski acquired the estate and orchestrated an ambitious renaissance, revitalizing storied steep-slope vineyards and inaugurating a state-of-the-art gravity-fed winery atop the Wiltinger Schlossberg. Managing approximately 85 hectares on Devonian slate across top-tier VDP.Grosse Lage sites—such as Scharzhofberger, Wiltinger Gottesfuß, Volz, and Ockfener Bockstein—the estate works predominantly with old, ungrafted Riesling vines. Practicing sustainable, non-interventional viticulture, cellar master Dominik Völk champions spontaneous wild-yeast fermentations and extended aging in neutral oak and stainless steel. Van Volxem produces intensely mineral, low-alcohol, dry-leaning Rieslings and refined sparkling Sekts that revive the aristocratic, turn-of-the-century prestige of traditional Saar wines.
🍇 Grapes
Riesling
🍷 ABV
12% - 12.5