Goldberg Riesling Spatlese
⏳ Drinking Window
2023 - 2038
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Spicy Thai curry, roasted duck, blue cheese
✨ Technical Specifications
The Wawerner Goldberg vineyard, situated on a steep south-facing slope along the Saar, is legendary for its iron-rich red slate soils, which impart a distinctively warm, spicy minerality to the Riesling grapes grown here. Van Volxem's Goldberg Riesling Sp atlese is a magnificent tribute to this historic terroir, where viticulture dates back to Roman times. Crafted from late-harvested fruit, this wine undergoes spontaneous fermentation with native yeasts in traditional large oak casks. The resulting Sp atlese is a masterclass in balance, marrying the Saar's signature vibrant, electric acidity with a luscious, natural residual sweetness. It unfolds with complex layers of ripe peach, apricot, and exotic spices, underpinned by a deep, smoky mineral core that reflects its unique red-slate origin.
🍾 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