Ockfener Geisberg Riesling Kabinett Goldkapsel Auktion
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2040
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
spicy Thai curry, glazed pork belly, blue cheese
✨ Technical Specifications
The Ockfener Geisberg is a legendary steep-slope vineyard along the Saar, historically ranked alongside Scharzhofberg as one of the most prestigious terroirs in the region during the late 19th century. After decades of neglect due to its challenging, near-vertical topography, this grand site was painstakingly resurrected. This rare Goldkapsel Kabinett is crafted specifically for the prestigious annual VDP Mosel Wine Auction. Grown on weathered Devonian slate soils, the wine undergoes spontaneous fermentation with indigenous yeasts. It beautifully captures the historic Saar style, balancing a delicate, feather-light sweetness with a piercing, electric acidity and intense slate minerality.
🍾 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
7.5-8.5%